Re: Octave 4.4. on MacOS 10.12.6 with GUI anyone?

[Andrew Janke]

On 6/27/18 2:23 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/27/2018 10:35 AM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
> > I have. Unfortunately, that turns out to be quite difficult, because 
> > it depends on making builds of GCC and Qt (and all the other Octave 
> > dependencies) that are relocatable, which is no easy task, because 
> > they're not designed for that.
>
> The Windows binary for Octave may be installed in any directory, so I 
> think it is possible, even for GCC, which is included with the Octave 
> Windows installer.
>
> I also distribute (privately) binaries for older RHEL and SuSE systems 
> that can be installed anywhere.  They rely on a shell script to set 
> some environment variables before executing Octave. That is all 
> included in the mxe-octave build system.  The shell script is here:
>
>   http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/octave-wrapper.in
>
> You do have to edit the shell scripts to set the proper value of 
> OCTAVE_HOME, but that could be done by an installer script if needed.
>
> jwe
That's exciting: if it can be done on Linux, then it seems likely to be 
feasible on macOS.

We're already making a wrapper script to deal with some environment 
variables, so that wouldn't be a burden to expand. I'll have a look 
through the MXE system and get familiar with it.

Thanks!

Andrew