Re: Successful compilation with MinGW

[John Swensen]

This is a little off topic since you are talking about Octave without 
Cygwin, but I have been working on an Octave GUI for the past year or 
so.  I only get about an hour or two a week to work on it, but am slowly 
making progress.  It requires Cygwin + Xwindows + various GTK packages 
from cygwin-ports (for Windows), but also runs on OSX and Linux.  I have 
a rudimentary editor with Octave syntax highlighting implemented with 
the GtkSourceView widget.  For the gnome people out there, it is the 
same widget used for gedit.  My next step is to integrate the source 
editor with the Octave debugging underpinnings.  You can see a 
screenshot of the UI portion at
http://swenmac.homeip.net:8080/OctaveUI.png
The panels on the left are implemented with the widgets used in Gimp, 
such that they can be tabbed together, detached completely, or docked in 
various orders.
I have a friend who is setting up a Subversion repository and Trac wiki 
for me.  Once I have that done and a little more debugging, I will post 
a link to the sources to the list.

I do have one Octave under MingW question.  Is there any big advantage 
to running Octave under MingW rather than just with Cygwin?

John

Bill Denney wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure the IDE will be that hard for someone who is inclined to 
> > write GUI applications (I'm more into writing video device drivers 
> > than GUI's myself). There are plenty of tools to make this easier. 
> > There was even an e-mail a couple of days ago of someone wanting to 
> > write an XDE under IBM's eclipse software. Don't know want help will 
> > be under windows though ....
>
> Eclipse works under windows (though I'm not a user, so I don't know 
> what issues may exist), and there is always the (x)emacs option.
>
> Bill