Re: Compiling octave with MSVC

[David Bateman]

John Swensen wrote:
> Michael Goffioul wrote:
>> John W. Eaton a écrit :
>>> | 2 small additional questions:
>>> | - do you think it is possible to include the (modified) cccl script
>>> with | octaixve source?
>>>
>>> How was it modified, and why?
>>>   
>>
>> I added support for additional compilation flags (like -Wl,xxxx or
>> -shared), stripped the "lib"
>> prefix of libraries and added support for other file suffixes (like
>> .oct).
>>
>> Michael.
>>
>>
>>
> Have you tried the Octave2.m benchmark from sciviews.org to see how an
> MSVC compiled Octave compares to a cygwin/gcc compiled one?  Does this
> link against ATLAS, FFTW, etc?
> 
> John Swensen
> 

I second this request for info on atlas and fftw. If you have a good
ATLAS build then I'd probably stop trying with mingw and switch to MSVC.
Also does it correctly build CLN and GINAC dependencies of the symbolic
toolbox from octave? That was another package that caused me much pain
with mingw...

D,