RE: how to make mexbiosig work on mxe-octave

[JohnD]

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> Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 01:20:49 +0200
> From: Alois Schl?gl <address@hidden>
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> Subject: how to make mexbiosig work on mxe-octave
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> Dear maintainers of MXE-OCTAVE,
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> mexbiosig [1] is a mex-file for loading about 50 different Biosig data
> formats [2] into octave. mexbiosig can than be installed in octave with ?
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>     pkg install mexbiosig-X.Y.Z.src.tar.gz
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> but requires that? libbiosig [1] is available on the host platform.
> libbiosig for windows can be compiled with mxe [3,4,5]. I tried to
> compile libbiosig within mxe-octave. However, this was not successful (I
> just copied src/libbiosig.mk from [5] into a recent mxe-octave directory
> and tried to run "make libbiosig" in the same way as I used to this mxe.
> It fails with the message "make: *** No rule to make target
> 'libbiosig'.? Stop."
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> Therefore, I'm asking:
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> 1) how to compile libbiosig within mxe-octave ? What do I miss here ?
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> 2) would you consider including libbiosig into the official mxe-octave
> repository ? What is needed to include this in Octave for windows ?
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> The procedure to install mexbiosig in Octave is working fine on? Linux
> and macOS through homebrew. It would be great if mexbiosig could be also
> provided to Octave users on Windows. Could you help me with that ?
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> Best regards,
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> ? Alois
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> [1] http://biosig.sourceforge.net/download.html
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> [2] http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/TESTED
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> [3] https://mxe.cc/
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> [4] https://github.com/schloegl/mxe
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> [5] https://github.com/schloegl/mxe/blob/master/src/libbiosig.mk
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Looks like from biosig4c++, you should be running make -f Makefile.win32
It currently fails in the build though with error: conflicting types for
'sopen'