Re: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: JohnD 
> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2018/9/1, Sat 01:11
> Subject: RE: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave
> 
>> 
>>  Message: 4
>>  Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:47:13 -0500
>>  From: Colin Macdonald <address@hidden>
>>  To: address@hidden
>>  Subject: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave
>>  Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>> 
>>  On 2018-08-30 12:07 PM, JohnD wrote:
>>  > As a nice side effect, we can now do stuff like install python and 
> sympy
>>  > through msys2 package manager:
>>  >
>>  >> pacman -Sy
>>  >> pacman -S python3-pip
>>  >> pip install sympy
>> 
>>  If I've understood correctly, you mean the end-user can do that Octave
>>  is installed.  But where does she type those commands?  Can she do
>>  `system('pacman -Sy')` from within Octave?
>> 
>>  Anyway, certainly sounds like good news for the Symbolic package (and
>>  others) with external dependencies.  If someone can test all this and
>>  document it (e.g., at [1]) it would be much appreciated!
>> 
>>  thanks,
>>  Colin
>> 
>>  [1]
>>  https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/wiki/Notes-on-Windows-installation
>> 
>> 
> 
> They could do via system calls, although I prefer opening up the Bash shell
> window from the Octave install and doing it from there.
> 
> Currently it is only going to work on dev installers that  have been created
> using msys2 as part of the install - I guess next release will be Octave
> 5.0.0 ?


I have built octave 4.4.1 for windows using mxe-octave.
Now I can use msys2.

I could install sympy
 pacman -Sy
 pacman -S python3-pip
 pip install sympy


from msys2 prompt.

And then I could install the symbolic package from octave prompt 
 >> pkg install -forge symbolic 

Tatsuro