# HG changeset patch # User Marco Atzeri # Date 1221675611 14400 # Node ID cd0d53b55f79720624e2aac8de190d749f8b3f77 # Parent fc45357bf50ccdb48fceb36ef92db2c5e19dc671 update README.Cygwin diff -r fc45357bf50c -r cd0d53b55f79 README.Cygwin --- a/README.Cygwin Fri Sep 12 15:34:13 2008 -0400 +++ b/README.Cygwin Wed Sep 17 14:20:11 2008 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +Starting with version 3.0.1, Octave is once again part of the normal +net distribution of Cygwin, available from http://www.cygwin.com. +The latest previous version available was 2.1.73 + +It is possible to build Octave on Windows systems with Cygwin, +but with standard gcc-3.4.4-3 compiler there are some performance +problems related to the way C++ exception handling is implemented. +This is a known problem with a long history so it is suggested to use +version gcc-4.3.2-1 or later. + +Binary version 3.0.2-2 is built with gcc-4.3.2-1 + +Current cygwin octvave mantainer : + Marco Atzeri + http://matzeri.altervista.org + An obsolete version of Octave (2.1.73) is part of the normal net distribution of Cygwin, available from http://www.cygwin.com. Check the package list in Cygwin's setup.exe installer if you would like to @@ -12,7 +28,7 @@ Cygwin mailing lists for threads related to "sjlj exception handling" (or similar). -There are also two "unofficial" Octave distributions for Cygwin: +There is also an "unofficial" Octave distribution for Cygwin: 1. http://www.geocities.jp/tmacchant @@ -28,23 +44,6 @@ This binary is maintained by Tatsuro Matsuroka. - 2. http://matzeri.altervista.org - - The binaries here aim to be an officail cygwin distribution of - Octave-3.0.x and are built using the version of GCC distributed - with Cygwin. Performance of linear algebra functions is fine, but - the performance of the scripting language interpreter suffers - because of the setjump/longjump exception handling model used in - the version of GCC distributed with Cygwin. The advantage is that - you don't need a special version of GCC. - - This binary is maintained by Marco Atzeri - -We hope that Cygwin will eventually have a version of GCC that does -not suffer from the performance problem related to setjump/longjump -exception handling. - - John W. Eaton jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison @@ -55,4 +54,8 @@ Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, Gradudate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. -Last updated: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:01:48 EDT +Marco Atzeri +marco_atzeri@yahoo.it +Italy + +Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:16:03 EDT