> 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.
You're welcome. But large parts of the windows-specific code in octave were contributed by Michael Goffioul. Me and others picked it up from there. So - as practically everywhere in the open source world - it's a community achievement. > 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. That's the downside of old binaries not being available anymore on the respective project's homepage. Newer GM versions have been reported to cause troubles, so I stuck with the older one. > 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). Do you build octave using msys' rxvt terminal? the not-showing-the-prompt-issue is a well known problem there, sadly without a solution available. Also the readline interface does not work when using rxvt. So, for running octave, rxvt is the wrong choice. You can try e.g. console2 instead of rxvt. As a last resort, you can fall back to windows' cmd.exe. benjamin -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
