RE: compiling octave fails on building flex

[JohnD]

>From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:50 PM
>To: John Donoghue; Sergei Steshenko
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: compiling octave fails on building flex
>
> So now compiling with 'make' works I haven't found what to run. Copying the 
> usr folder including octave executables to windows does not work (maybe i 
> missed some files or setup?): running any of the octave*.exe do not work. 
> There is no vbs entry point like there is now for octave 4.2.1. There is no 
> run-active command to run it on linux. Running 'make nsis-installer' fails to 
> build many of the forge packages, so I can't get an installer for it. 
> Is there a way to exclude all forge packages from the installer? It's 
> convenient, but I only use a few that I can try to install from within octave 
> later. 
>


Can you bottom post replies to make it easier to follow?

For the questions, you need to either create the installer, using 'make 
nsis-installer' and install that, or create a dist zip with 'make zip-dist' and 
unpack that in windows.

If you ran configure without the --enable-binary-packages, it would not install 
the binary packages and so not include them in the dist zip/installer.