64 bit octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2001, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden> wrote:

| does anybody have a 64 bit octave version?

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Octave has worked on DEC Alphas
for a long time now.  Does that count?

| If yes how can I build it using gcc?

I build it on DEC Alphas using gcc, and have for about 6 years now.

| AFAIK octave can be built only with gcc.

No.  I've been successful building it with the Sun compilers, and more
recently, Mumit Khan has done some additional work so that Octave
should configure and compile out of the CVS archive with the Sun
Workshop compilers (I believe he said that he used Sun Workshop 5.0 on
Sun Solaris 2.8).

| How large is the effort to make octave ANSI-C++ compliant
| and compilable with proprietary CC compiler?

Smaller now than it used to be.

jwe



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