RE: Windows installer

[John D]

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From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 10:02 AM
To: John D
Cc: 'octave maintainers mailing list'
Subject: Re: Windows installer

On 01/06/2014 09:45 AM, John D wrote:

> I thought about the compiled packages for a while and I think it is 
> going to be hard to do on a cross build system - the easier way to do 
> this will be create the compiled packages on a native machine and then 
> include them as binaries in the cross build system.

I agree that it is not easy now, but longer term I'd like to be able to
cross compile the packages.

jwe

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How about for now changing the run octave checkbox on the installer to
"Install provided packages" and at the end of the install, have it run the
build_packages.m script ?