Re: Octave for MSVC 2005 build

[Michael Goffioul]

As I already mentioned a couple of time, there's no official support anymore
to compile octave with MSVC. It is technically compilable, but you are on
your own if you want to do it. Look at the thread referenced by Tatsuro,
there are basically 2 approaches: either you create solution files, or you
rely on some MSVC wrapper that makes it look like GCC.

The latter is probably better, because it allows you to compile octave
using the normal build system. Moreover, this can also be used to compile
other software that octave relies on. As most of the components to compile
are auto-tools based, you'll also need a shell to run the shell scripts and
provide the required build environment. I recommend using MSYS.

Finally, you'll also need a Fortran compiler (to compile octave and/or
some dependencies). The easiest in this case is to use f2c to convert
Fortran to C and then use the regular C compiler.

Hope this helps.

Michael.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have no experience for MSVC build of octave. I myself use gcc on MinGW and 
> cygwin compliers for
> octave building.
>
> I hope that the following archive of the threads will be helpful for you.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/MSVC-solution,-Makefile-or-build-tips-available--tc24267636.html#a24268304
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>
> --- "Radiceski, Darko"  wrote:
>
>> Greetings Dr. Tatsuro
>>
>> My name is Darko. I am a developer looking at using Octave in my Vusual
>> Studio solution.
>>
>> So far i have not been succesfull in getting Octave to compile and build
>> so i can use it in my visual studio 2005.
>>
>> Also i noticed that that MSVC build has been removed from the MSVC site.
>>
>> Would you by any chance have a solution of Octave that would build in
>> MSVC?
>>
>> Sincerely
>> Darko
>>
>>
>> Darko Radiceski
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