From: John W. Eaton
To: "tmacchant; Julien Bect ; "octave-maintainers
Cc:
Date: 2017/3/18, Sat 04:21
Subject: Re: Octave on Windows with large arrays ?
On 03/17/2017 01:04 PM, address@hidden wrote:
As written in the thead, --enrable-fortran-int64 is configure option of
mxe- octave.
Sorry, I missed that part.
Yes, because now it is possible to build the development version of Octave with
support for 64-bit indexing and still use 32-bit indexing in the BLAS and other
libraries, we need to control the type of index used for those libraries
separately from whether Octave uses 64-bit indexing. Sorry for the confusion,
most likely due to not having a separate mxe-octave branch for building stable
Octave. OTOH, I'm not sure we really want to add that complexity.
At first I was surprised that Octave was successfully configured with
--enable-64 when the libraries are using 32-bit indexing, but then I remembered
that this is a cross build, so we can't run the program that is necessary to
detect that problem. So we have to trust that the options have been selected
correctly. Sorry.
jwe