Re: hdf5 problem on cygwin octave is solved by illgal? way

[Michael Goffioul]

On 8/31/07, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Michael.
>
> > The problem with the static library is that any
> > package that uses HDF5
> > library (like fixed package) will produce multiple
> > definition errors. So
> > the only patch I can think of is to remove the
> > ability to save in HDF5 format
> > in octave-forge packages... (but maybe I'm
> > overlooking something).
> >
>
>
> I have succeded to build the communications-1.0.2 and
> fixed-0.7.2 only to erase '-hdf5' in mkoctfile-2.9.13

Maybe it's due to the fact that cygwin does export all symbols
by default. So liboctinterp.dll exports all symbols from the HDF5
library. This wouldn't have worked with MSVC.

Michael.