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reorganize octave_config_info again
* build-env-features.sh: Don't include ENABLE_ items in the output.
* toplev.cc (find_config_info): New static function.
(Foctave_config_info): Put Octave configuration info in the main
struct. Put the build system features and build environment info in
substructures. Allow searching of all elements by keyword.
* __have_feature__.m, doc/interpreter/testfun.txi:
Fix name of build features substructure element.
* geometryimages.m, interpimages.m, plotimages.m, sparseimages.m,
splineimages.m: Use __have_feature__ to check for OSMESA.
author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:14:56 -0500 |
parents | 446c46af4b42 |
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1. General Users ================ A MInGW bundle is available from sourceforge. http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html 2. Developers ============= The process for building Octave from source is as follows. * Install development tools and compiler * Install or compile dependencies of Octave * Download Octave source * Configure and compile source We strongly encourage experienced users to build Octave from the testing and development snapshots to try the latest features of Octave. A good tutorial on building Octave for version 3.2 is available from http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/HOWTO.txt Additional information beyond the tutorial is summarized below. 2.1 Development tools and compiler ---------------------- Msys + MinGW development Tools The Msys + MinGW development Tools are required to build Octave from source. The latest version of the Msys system is 1.0.16. For MinGW, search and use the most recent version available. Note: The Howto.txt file describing the development tools is rather old. The latest GCC (GNU Complier Collection) for MinGW is gcc-4.5.0. Earlier versions are not recommended for building Octave 3.4.xx. The latest Msys, MinGW, and GCC tools can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ (Compiling for 64-bit binaries requires mingw-64 toolkits. This has not been tested.) 2.2 Dependencies ---------------------- External program dependencies * gnuplot (you can build this with the shell script mentioned in Howto.txt) * MikTeX * ghostscript * pstoedit (required for printing using FLTK (OpenGL) graphics) * fig2dev (Optional; better quality for FLTK printing in some file formats) * sed * less The tools below are required for building the development sources from the Mercurial archive, but not for simply building Octave from a snapshot tar.gz file. * Mercurial * git * automake * autoconf Library dependencies Please read Howto.txt carefully on how to build them. The Howto.txt is old so some revisions will be required when using GCC-4.5.0 2.3 Download Octave source ---------------------- The source for testing snapshots can be downloaded from the official Octave web site. http://www.octave.org/download.html The very latest development code is also available via anonymous access to a read-only Mercurial archive. The method of download is described on the web site. You will also need to install gnulib as another dependency. Please visit http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ and download sources using git. 2.4 Configure and compile source ---------------------- Building from source can be carried out using the script described in Howto.txt. When using GCC-4.5.0, remove flags for shared libstdc++ because a shared build is already the default. When running './configure', you must add '--enable-float-truncate' option. Please see the following thread for more information: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.bugs/12361/focus=12404 To build development sources from the Mercurial repository you must run bootstrap before running configure and make. This requires that automake and autoconf tools be installed. Tatsuro MATSUOKA tmacchant@yahoo.co.jp Benjamin Lindner bjmldn@gmail.com Last updated: Sat Jan 22 17:29:12 PST 2011