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Re: Windows binaries
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Paul Kienzle |
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Re: Windows binaries |
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Fri, 09 May 2003 02:01:59 -0400 |
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Andy Adler wrote:
Windows support is really important to getting broad octave acceptance.
I think that we're currently most of the way there.
Windows 9x support is really awkward at the moment because of
fork(). Fork takes ...forever... and causes a window to pop up for
each oct-file loaded saying that the oct-file has caused a protect
violation and must be closed. With fork() gone, I think the only thing
stopping us from compiling under MinGW is signal handling. With the
new signal handling support in Octave, this will be easy enough to
write. I believe I already submitted a patch for most of it, but that
patch will need to be reworked. There also may be issues with path
search, but that might be a matter of how kpathsea is compiled.
Paul Kienzle
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