Hi octave-dev, My current goal is building Octave on Windows. My ultimate purpose is to port a gtk application (requiring Octave 3.3+) to Windows. First, I'd like to thank Benjamin Lindner and Tatsuro Matsuoka for their hard work. It's apparent that Octave wouldn't run on Windows without your work.
I tried installing Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe just to see how Octave acts and works on Windows. I followed the instructions in the HOWTO (mentioned in a message on the list), trying to build 3.2.4-4. The GraphicsMagick library won't download. I don't really care about this right now, but I'll try to fix GM if I just get Octave going. I can build Octave. I get FAIL 6 when I run check. However, when I execute "./build-4.3.4-4.sh run" I get an Octave without a prompt (just the welcome message). I thought it was taking a very long time to load. I was very surprised to find that I could enter statements and octave would respond. So it's sort of like the prompt is "" (but PS1 is not empty). So I can run simple statements like "5" in it. But if an syntax error occurs, the syntax error message is printed and Octave immediately quits (no extra message). I'm building on Windows 7. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
