Re: octave mingw problem

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Kai Habel wrote:

> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:47:46 +0000
>> Von: Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
>> An: Kai Habel <address@hidden>
>> CC: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
>> Betreff: Re: octave mingw problem
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Kai Habel <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to get octave (default and gui) running under mingw (32bit).
>> I
>>> have compiled all dependencies and octave myself, but now I am stuck.
>> When I
>>> run octave (installed and ./run-octave) it quits immediately after the
>> first
>>> command prompt is printed. But when I run 'make check' the test suite
>> runs
>>> through with about 20 failures of ~1000 tests.
>>> I can run octave under gdb. I have stepped trough octave_main() - see
>> below.
>>> Do you have any ideas where to look at?
>>> 
>>> BTW I see the same behavior when compiling 3.4.3, so I suspect the
>> problem
>>> to be on my side.
>> 
>> Maybe readline library is mis-compiled.
>> 
>> Michael.
> 
> It seems you are always right on target ;-)
> I have recompiled using the --disable-readline switch for now, and can start 
> both octave and octave-gui. Attached is a octave gui screenshot.
> BTW what is the gui status on MacOS? Is someone working on that?
> 
> Kai
> <octave_gui.png>

I'm happy to try on MacOS. What is the procedure for building the GUI?

Ben