Re: pipes in Octave on Windows? (was: Re: optim, struct, parallel: pre-release check on Windows?)

[PhilipNienhuis]

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 19:11:01 +0900, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> Olaf Till:
>> > Cygwin does have 'pipe()', doesn't it?
>> 
>> Yes, it has. 
> 
> Yes, the Octave binary installer is not the same as Octave on Cygwin.
> 
>> Thus execution of the same test on octave on Cygwin-x64 gives:
>> 
>> >> res = pararrayfun (4, @ (x) x, 1:15)
>> parcellfun: 15/15 jobs done
>> res =
>> 
>>     1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12   13   14  
>> 15
>> 
>> as expected. 
>> 
>> Cygwin supports almost all posix functions and then
>> almost all octave-forge packages work on octave on the Cygwin [1].
>> (However, perhaps Macro do a lot of job for octave-forge on Cygwin.)
> 
> Thanks for verifying that.
> 
>> At least MinGW and msvc9 do not support "pipe" function.
>> Octave for windows is built using MinGW compiler so that 
>> some treatments are required to use "pipe" function.
>> I refer gnulib implementation of "pipe" [2], [3].
> 
> Yes, gnulib has a pipe function that we could start using for the
> Windows builds. Any volunteers want to test it? I can provide an Octave
> source tarball with the pipe function replacement enabled to drop into
> your mxe-octave build if you don't know how to do that part.

If you provide the tarball (or a cset relative to the dev version) + some
functions (.m, oct/cc) that invoke it, or point to core/OF functions that
do, I'm happy to try it out.

Philip



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