Re: distributing Octave in August

[Michael Goffioul]

On 6/15/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-Jun-2007, address@hidden wrote:
>
> | MSVC Octave on
> | Windows does not return a prompt to Emacs, and thus does not work.
> | (I would prefer the new MINGW32 binary, does that work? Where can I find
> | it?)
>
> I would not be surprised if both binaries have the same problem when
> run from Emacs.

Probably yes, as Benjamin used the same readline library (patched). The
prompt not showing might be a buffer problem: MSVC-compiled octave does
not show a prompt when run within MSYS, although it works OK. I've noticed
the same behavior when using MSVC-compiled within MSYS: without explicitely
flushing stdout, it does nto work correctly. OTOH, I wonder if the
input-side would
work anyway within Emacs, as the readline library uses Win32 console API to
get input (this was needed as Win32 does not allow to "select" on pipes/ttys,
such that it was impossible to implement event hooks).

Michael.