Re: producing a self-standing program

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On 5 Sep 2012, at 09:57, Laurent Hoeltgen wrote:

> On 05/09/12 07:04, Yury T. wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Is it possible to produce a self-standing linux executable from octave
>> script, which would use and enclose in itself one of the octave-only
>> parallel solutions (most likely I wouldn't need any fancy parallelization)?
>> 
>> I'd want to run my program on 'foreign' cluster, on which I'm unsure I'd be
>> able to permanently keep >1G of octave binaries, and in fact, I'm reluctant
>> to undertake the compilation itself there.
>> 
>> Is it doable at all or partly only?
>> 
>> 
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> Hi,
> 
> As far as I know, you can't produce self-standing executables with octave.

you can but you will have to write at least parts of it using Octave's C++ API.
Have a look at "mkoctfile" in the manual, specifically at the option 
"--link-stand-alone".
But even if you do manage to have it all statically linked (which is an 
absolutely non trivial task)
youll'end up whith a file that is the same size as the full Octave installation.
So to put it in short, it might be possible but I really don't see the point in 
doing such a thing.

> However, you can write scripts using the usual shebang notation
> 
> #! /bin/octave
> 
> as the first line of your script. These scripts can then be simply run from a 
> terminal. Of course, this requires octave to be installed on the machine that 
> you are running the script.
> 
> Regards,
> Laurent


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