Re: Compiling Octave on WinXP32bit for Win764bit

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: dkeck 

> To: octave-maintainers> Cc: 
> Date: 2014/7/24, Thu 18:06
> Subject: Re: Compiling Octave on WinXP32bit for Win764bit
> 
> tmacchant wrote
>>  "Compiling Octave on WinXP32bit for Win764bit"
>>  What do you want do?
>>  Do you want to build 64bit binary on 32bit XP?
>>  Why do you want to do it?
>> 
>>  It is  better to try to build on windows 7 directly.
>>  Windows XP is not suitable octave build because it is horribly slow.
>>  Tatsuto
> 
> Thanks for pointing out that it is so slow. Yes, I would like to compile the
> 64bit binary on 32bit OS. Why? For the challenge and for education. The more
> errors occur the more I should learn.
> 


I do not know whether 64 bit build on 32 bit windows is possible or not.
But first you should build cross-build gcc which gives 64 bit executable and 
compiler itself works on 32 bit windows. Perhaps it will be very difficult. 

Tatsuro