Re: installation errors of octave-forge parallel on windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Sat, 2014/4/19, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, Hanan Rosemarinwrote:
> 
> > 
> > hi
> > 
> > Installation of the parallel (required for the optim package) octave forge 
> > package on octave 3.8.1-1 (from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/) on windows 7 
> > generates the following errors.
> > 
> > 
> > >> pkg -forge install parallel
> > sclose.cc:37:24: fatal error: sys/socket.h: No such file or directory
> >  #include <sys/socket.h>
> >                         ^
> > compilation terminated.
> > sock-stream.cc: In function 'void handle_errno(std::string, int)':
> > sock-stream.cc:89:10: error: 'ETXTBSY' was not declared in this scope
> >      case ETXTBSY:
> >           ^
> > g++: error: sclose.o: No such file or directory
> > g++: error: sock-stream.o: No such file or directory
> > strip: 'sclose.oct': No such file
> > make: *** [sclose.oct] Error 1
> > make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-2/parallel-2.2.0/src'
> > C:/Octave/Octave-3.8.1/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1.exe -s sclose.cc sock-stream.cc
> > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-2/parallel-2.2.0/src'
> > 
> > pkg: error running `make' for the parallel package.
> > error: called from 'configure_make' in file 
> > C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\private\configur
> > e_make.m near line 82, column 9
> > error: called from:
> > error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\private\install.m 
> > at line 199, column 5
> > error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\pkg.m at line 394, 
> > column 9
> > 
> > the lack of socket.h support in MingW is well documented (e.g. 
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517762/sockets-in-mingw, 
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638604/where-does-one-get-the-sys-socket-h-header-source-file,
> >  
> > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/www/home/ericb/gnulib/lib/sys_socket.in.h).
> > 
> > The solution seems to range between modifying the forge package to include 
> > winsock2.h when compiling on windows to adding an alternate socket.h to 
> > MingW.
> > 
> It is better to file the issue into the bug tracker.
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave
> 

The gnulib implementation of  sys/socket.h (that is used octave build) may 
help. However, poll.h is also required to build which is not implemented on 
MinGW and octave's gnulib tree does not implement it. 

I tried to implement it but my knowledge is not enough to complete it.

Regards

Tatsuro