Re: Problems with QtOctave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, David Grundberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, I know.  I've compiled Octave on mingw myself.  I was referring to
> OctaveDE, where I wasn't as lucky.  But apparently I was wrong.
> OctaveDE can be built on mingw.  I just didn't try hard enough, or
> something.

The fact that I can compile it under MSVC doesn't necessarily mean
that you'll be able to compile it out of the box on MinGW. To make it
work, I actually had to hack libvte (a lot) and readline (a little):
- implement a pipe-based communication instead of pty
- implement a native Win32 renderer for libvte (for performance
reasons, the default pango+cairo rendere being way too slow)
- implement custom terminal resize support in readline

Part of these have never been published.

Michael.