Re: MinGW build and FTGL library for Octave 3.1.55

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Benjamin Lindar who is a official maintainer of octave binary distribution on 
MinGW 
is now preparing for octave 3.0.5 binaries.  Please wait for a while.
However I do not know when it will be distributed.

I was an unofficial version maintainer of Octave binaries on MinGW and Cygwin.
For both platform, more powerful maintainers (Benjamin for MinGW, Macro for 
Cgywin) appeared so that I
have retired a maintainer. 

I am now a supporting staff of octave for windows for testing, maintaining 
OctaveForWindows Wiki, and
preparing tool kit for those who build octave by themselves on MinGW and so on. 

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- Alexander Mamonov wrote:

> Hello Tatsuro,
> 
> Thank you for your work on Octave version for Windows. After Michael
> has withdrawn his MSVC distribution from Sourceforge, your version
> remains the only option for Windows users.
> However, that version is rather outdated (3.0.2). Do you have any
> plans to make a release of 3.0.5 anytime soon? Not having a latest
> Windows binary is one of the reasons why I'm going through a rather
> painful (at least for a Windows user like me) process of building
> Octave with mingw. I hope that my experience will help to improve
> Octave somehow (at least I found a bug in configure script preventing
> OpenGL to work in mingw, that John was so kind to fix).
> I really want the excellent piece of software that Octave is, to be
> adopted by a wide range of users, and for that a high quality binary
> Windows distribution is essential.
> 
> Regars,
> Alex
> 
> 2009/5/6 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>:
> > Hello
> >
> >
> > --- Alexander Mamonov wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you for the patch. After doing autoconf ./configure detects the
> >> libraries correctly. I cannot check whether the build process itself
> >> works, since for my gcc version 3.4.5 it breaks because of compiler
> >> bugs.
> >
> > GCC-3.4.5 is obsolete for building octave in the development branch.
> >
> > I recommend to use TDM's GCC/mingw32 Builds.
> > http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/
> >
> > Latest release at present (2009-05-06) is 4.4.0-tdm-1.
> >
> > I have been using GCC-4.3.3-1. I mainly use Dwarf2 EH version because the 
> > speed of octave
> interpreter
> > is 20-30% faster than that built b Sjll version. However, for the 
> > stability, the sllj version
> might
> > be better. In details, please read README-gcc-tdm.txt in the release 
> > package.
> >
> >
> > **************
> > BTW, I have introduce my distribution of a build kit under MinGW 
> > GCC-4.3.3-dw2-TDM for octave
> 3.0.5.
> >
> > http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/index.html
> >
> > 0005 OctaveBuild.zip, 8,380,551 bytes, 2009-04-28, md5 
> > 3587b65873be7d5e2b38a671162fa61e,
> octave build
> > tool kit under the MinGW
> >
> > 0006 ReadmeBriefOctBuildMingw.html, 11,748 bytes, 2009-05-04, md5
> 1a52737ad283dfd8178159edc1720dc3,
> > Brief explanation for the octave build tool kit under the MinGW, please 
> > read this before use.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> >
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