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Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA |
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Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows |
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Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:54:39 +0900 (JST) |
----- Original Message -----
> From: PhilipNienhuis
> To: help-octav
> Cc:
> Date: 2015/8/6, Thu 17:00
> Subject: Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows
>
> Y
> NJank wrote
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:36 PM, ijourneaux <
>
>> ian@
>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if there was a procedure to building updated versions
> of
>>> Octave 4.0 for Windows? There is a bug fix that Carne implemented wrt
>>> writing BMP files a couple of weeks ago. The fix required changes to
> the
>>> Image package and to Octave itself. I think the latest version on the
>>> website is from May.
>>>
>>> I can probably get myself setup to build it but didn't want to
> replicate
>>> the
>>> effort if there was a system in place to rebuild Octave for Windows
>>> periodically.
>>> Ian
>>>
>>>
>> last I checked there is not a completely Windows-oriented rebuild process.
>> Unless I'm mistaken, most of the available instructions involve
>> cross-compiling on Linux for Windows. If fix's just result in modified
>> m-files, they can just be dropped into the proper place in the Octave
>> folder tree. Other wise, if it a patch that needs to be worked into other
>> files, those of us not running linux usually just wait for the generous
>> souls out there to push a new windows version forward. :D
>>
>> If you want to either figure out a Windows-only compilation route, or have
>> a linux platform available to do regular cross compiling, I'm sure no
> one
>> would complain if the Windows tree included separate stable and
>> periodically updated development versions. :)
>
> Until some time ago (several months at least) it was possible to build
> Octave natively on Windows using MXE. But it took AGES - while a cross-build
> on Linux took ~ 3 hours, a native build on Windows easily took 24 hours or
> more on the same multiboot box.
>
> AFAIK no one has attempte d native builds lately and it is uncertain if it
> still works.
>
> Philip
AFAIK, JohnD was successful for windows native build with recent mxe-octave.
He used Msys2 (32bit) and its tools and MinGW w62 32 bit compiler (gcc 4.9.2).
Tatsuro
- Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, ijourneaux, 2015/08/05
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Nicholas Jankowski, 2015/08/05
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/08/05
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, PhilipNienhuis, 2015/08/06
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows,
Tatsuro MATSUOKA <=
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Nicholas Jankowski, 2015/08/06
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/08/07
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Nicholas Jankowski, 2015/08/07
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, ijourneaux, 2015/08/12
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Philip Nienhuis, 2015/08/12
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/08/13
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, ijourneaux, 2015/08/13
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/08/13
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/08/14
- Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows, ijourneaux, 2015/08/14