RE: mxe-octave windows installer

[John D]

 

 

From: Michael Goffioul [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:15 AM
To: John D
Cc: Octave Maintainers List
Subject: Re: mxe-octave windows installer

 

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, John D <address@hidden> wrote:

Is anyone looking at merging in the work of Anirudha Bose into mxe-octave, or is there some other plan?

If no one is yet doing anything, I cant do much with the OS X parts but could take a look at the windows installer part at least and import in relevant change sets, unless there is a better way of doing it.

 

 

 There's no current plain to do the integration. I won't have time in the coming days/weeks to have a look at it, so if you're willing to look at the Windows-related bits, that would be great.

 

I had hoped that Anirudha would prepare the integration, but unfortunately it looks more like he vanished.

 

Michael.

 

 

I have pulled in some of Anirudha’s installer changesets, and added a few other changes to the installer if anyone wants to give it  try.

 

After building octave via make, running ./mk-inst –installer should create the installer which will install all the files that were installed by mxe-octave, the shortcuts for octave and documentation.

 

I cross built on my Fedora 19 box without issues. Hopefully it works ok with other cross build systems.

I haven’t pulled in all of Anirudha’s java changesets yet, and haven’t had java activated in the build, although I do have java on my windows machine.

 

I also have not imported additional octave package changesets as of yet.