Re: Pre-compiled octave for Windows

[Michael Goffioul]

David Bateman a écrit :
> address@hidden wrote:
>   
> > I added a specific warning in the welcome page. I posted the current
> > installer
> > at http://ceilimoss.ibelgique.com/octave_20061215(2.9.9+)_setup.exe.gz.
> > This site may have some bandwidth limitation, so it's possible that
> > you'll have
> > to wait a bit before downloading it.
> >  
> > Michael.
> >  
> >     
>
> Ok a few comments. There two copies of the libs. That is octave.lib and
> octave.lib.2.9.9+. Can one of these be removed to reduce the package
> size? 

Indeed. This is due to MinGW's "ln -s", which makes a copy of the file, 
instead of a symlink.
Wouldn't be better to have real symlinks, instead of removing those 
files. Aren't some octave
functions relying on such a name (for instance, mkoctfile.m calls 
"mkoctfile.2.9.9+" and not
"mkoctfile")?

> The GPL is a distribtion license and not a user license. You don't
> need to accept it for it to be valid. If you don't accept it then
> standard copyright laws apply and you have NO rights to distribution.
> Therefore, the "I Accept" is completely redundant in the install.
>   

I'm not an expert license. All GnuWin32 packages are done in the same 
way, so I followed
the same process. I'll see if I can remove the "I Accept" step.

> A question more that a comment. Where do the support libraries such as
> hdf5 live? Are they bundled into octave.dll? Did you solve the issue
> with atlas?
>   

All support DLL' are in the "bin" subdirectory. Some of the support libs 
are statically linked
into octave: mainly glob.lib and SuiteSparse. The MS runtime libraries 
lies in C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS.

Michael.