Re: How to download the gui on the Mecurial repository and requirements

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Thank you for quick reply.

--- On Wed, 2011/12/21, Michael Goffioul  wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I would like to challenge to build gui on the Mecurial repository.
> > Please show me how to get the source and dependencies  and tools for the 
> > build.
> 
> AFAIK the only dependencies are Qt and QScintilla. But you'll need to
> have them built with the same compiler as the one you used to compile
> octave (there might be some compatibilities between gcc versions, but
> I don't know that). 

For g++, the libraries linking manner is different between gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.5 
or later.
Perhaps I need to build it from the source as Kai Habel did.

Once you have the deps compiled, then compilation
> of the gui should be straightforward:
> 
> PATH=/where/octave/is/installed/bin:$PATH qmake
> make
> 
> Note that you don't have to recompile octave from the gui branch. You
> can perfectly compile just the gui-part of the gui branch against an
> octave built from the default branch (this is what I actually do).
> 
> Michael.
>