RE: mxe-octave windows installer

[fgnievinski]

John Donoghue-2 wrote
> From: Michael Goffioul [mailto:

> michael.goffioul@

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> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:15 AM
> To: John D
> Cc: Octave Maintainers List
> Subject: Re: mxe-octave windows installer
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> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, John D <

> john.david.donoghue@

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> Is anyone looking at merging in the work of Anirudha Bose into mxe-octave,
> or is there some other plan?
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> 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.
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>  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.
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> I had hoped that Anirudha would prepare the integration, but unfortunately
> it looks more like he vanished.
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> Michael.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I cross built on my Fedora 19 box without issues. Hopefully it works ok
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> other cross build systems.
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> 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.
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> I also have not imported additional octave package changesets as of yet.

I'd like to give it a try, please -- would it be okay for your changes to be
submitted?
Also, if you could point me to what is left to be done towards having a
Windows installer.
I'd like to help, within my limited C skills.
Thanks,
-Felipe.





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