Mingw32 compiled binaries

[Benjamin Lindner]

Hello all,

I just wanted to report (for the record?) that I have been successful
in compiling octave 2.9.12 using mingw's gcc/g77.
Also the package manager suite works fine when using the MSYS shell like
Michael does in the msvc binary. So far I checked a few forge packages
and compilation/installation worked well (given you meet the dependencies)

BIG credits to Michael Goffioul, David Bateman and John W. Eaton.

Would it be of general interest to provide also (official) compiled 
octave packages to be used with the mingw32 compiler? 
This way one could also provide a packaged mingw compiler seperately 
or bundled with octave. It is also (to me) more appealing in terms 
of licensing (there was some discussion on msvc runtime libraries on 
this list I recall)

benjamin

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