Re: Compiling octave with MSVC

[David Bateman]

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> It depends what you mean by "fully functional". It gives you a
> functional version
> of Octave running on Win32. Some things will not work because they rely on
> UNIX-only stuff, with no 1-to-1 equivalent. For instance,
> "audio/record.m" relies
> on "dd" utility: this cannot work as-is under Windows, but I guess
> this is the same
> for MinGW, isn't it?
>  
Yes, and no. I'd assumed that MSYS would be supplied with octave/mingw
to allow some of these things to work. You really really need the info
command at least to allow octave's help function to work.

D.

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