Re: Building under windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: mmuetzel 
> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2018/8/26, Sun 01:15
> Subject: Re: Building under windows
> 
> Some months ago, I installed the "Ubuntu App" for the Windows 
> subsystem for
> Linux and successfully compiled Octave with it. 
> Installing the App is as easy as hitting the "Install" button in the 
> Windows
> Store.
> The instructions for compiling Octave are the same as for a "real" 
> Ubuntu.
> With an installed X-Server for Windows (I used VcXsrv), it even runs with
> the GUI. I thought that plotting was possible too. But testing that now, it
> crashes the X-Server.
For me it does not crash but no plot appear with qt graphics_toolkit.|
For fltk, plot appear immediately.




> A real downside is that all file operations seem to be incredibly slow.
> Thus, compilation took quite some time. This might be a local system thing
> (maybe antivirus?).
> To get a true native Windows application, cross-compiling with MXE Octave is
> still necessary. I never tried that with the "Ubuntu App" however.
> 
> Personally, I went back to running Ubuntu in a "real" VM because that 
> seemed
> to perform much faster.
> 
> It would be interesting to hear other's experience.
> 
> Markus
> 
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