Re: Octave 4.4. on MacOS 10.12.6 with GUI anyone?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jun 27, 2018, at 07:35, Andrew Janke <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 6/27/18 10:29 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2018, at 9:15 PM, AndrewJanke <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sebastian Schöps wrote
>>>> There will be a macOS disk image from Andrew any time soon, however, you
>>>> may
>>>> also have a look to https://www.schoeps.org/home/tag/octave/.
>>> A beta version of the macOS DMG is out:
>>> https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/releases/download/untagged-4e9d0ab25492be932368/Octave-4.4.0-beta2.dmg
>>> 
>>> Give that a try and let me know if you have any issues.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew
>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>> Have you looked into modifying the app to make it relocatable? i.e. able to 
>> run from anywhere?
>> 
>> Ben
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I have. Unfortunately, that turns out to be quite difficult, because it 
> depends on making builds of GCC and Qt (and all the other Octave 
> dependencies) that are relocatable, which is no easy task, because they're 
> not designed for that.
> 
> Related issue: https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app-bundler/issues/2, 
> which is a prerequisite for making Octave.app itself relocatable.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew

I have a script that will make an app and it’s libs relocatable. With a list of 
all binaries, all the binaries, they may also be relocated. However if there 
are any hard coded paths, it will not work (maybe shell scripts and such?).

I used it successfully in the past with Macports. I’ll dig up the script and 
email it to you when I’m in front of my Mac.

Ben