Re: [octave-forge] (parallel) request help for testing at Windows

[Olaf Till]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 04:51:41PM -0600, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> Olaf Till-2 wrote
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while re-structuring the parallel package to not work with forked
> > children of Octave sessions, I tried to make the local and client part
> > of the package compatible with Windows. (The server part will not be
> > built at windows.)
> > 
> > Currently the infrastructure for the new code is in place and
> > everything which is critical for Windows compatibility should be
> > done. Preliminary tests pass at current Octave versions at
> > GNU/Linux. The package cross-compiled successfully for mingw at
> > mxe-octave.
> > 
> > Could somebody run the tests described below at Windows? (Tests at
> > other non-GNU OSs are welcome, too, of course.) Since building at
> > Windows may need a package with pre-built docs, I uploaded one at:
> 
> I tried to "pkg install"

Thanks.

You know, I'm not very familiar with package installation at Windows
and must leave the choice of installation method to you...

> but that didn't go very well.

> Build log attached (octave-6.0.0. tip from Nov. 21)
> 
> Philip parallel-1.zip
> <https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/t248596/parallel-1.zip>  

Sorry, my fault --- I should have mentioned that the recent Octave
versions against which I tested did not include the development
branch, so failing building against Octaves development branch is
expected...

Olaf

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