Re: Windows Octave compilation

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/09/2014 06:20 AM, John D wrote:

> Yeah - ghostscript is a new package - I haven’t gotten it to compile
> natively yet.
>
> 1) change the ghostscript.mk file to not have build-gcc as a dependency, and
> add:
> ifeq ($(USE_SYSTEM_GCC),no)
>      $(PKG)_DEPS     += build-gcc
> Endif

I think it was a mistake to include the build-gcc dependency.  I checked 
in a changeset that simply removes the dependency.

> 2) touch installed-packages/ghostscript
>
> 3) You will need a version of ghostscript installed on your computer and
> include the pathtoghostscript/bin in your path.

I checked in a series of changes that I needed to get a native build (of 
everything, not just ghostscript) working on my Debian system again. 
Maybe some of those changes will help with native mingw builds too?  The 
intent is to build ghostscript on all platforms, not just cross mingw, 
but that may require a few more changes.

To keep builds on all systems working properly with less pain, I think 
we need to be doing automatic mxe-octave builds for various types of 
systems when changes are made so that problems don't go unnoticed for 
long periods of time.  But I don't know where we can run those, or which 
autobuild system would be best to use.

jwe