Re: pkg manager and installing binary files (DLL)

[David Bateman]

David Bateman wrote:

> 
> The reason for the separate DLL is that I also linked the DLL against
> other oct-files for oct-files using the fixed type. See the examples
> directory.
> 
> It worked under cygwin when I wrote it... I forced the DLL to be in the
> same directory as octave.dll and it worked.. I don't think the makefile
> does this though and it has to be done by hand. I wouldn't mind if you
> suggested a fix?
>

I thought about it a little more. There is a bin/ directory in the
packages that is added to the EXEC_PATH when the package is loaded. So
if the DLL is copied from src/ to bin/ directory when it is built, the
install should place it in bin/ in the installed package and it will be
on the path.

The only question I have is if the fact that it is added to the path
ater Octave was started will affect things. So Michael can you try to
create a bin directory in the fixed package, move the DLL to it and
restart Octave and see if it helped?

Regards
David