[OctDev] Use mkoctfile under WinXP

[Carlo de Falco]

On 05/mar/08, at 11:43, Johannes F Dorfner wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to compile .oct-files with "mkoctfile" under Windows/ 
> Cygwin.
> I found a current Octave (testing) build with compiler packed by under
>
>    http://www.geocities.jp/tmacchant/
>
> After successfully installing all packages as described (I even  
> included
> the Octave-forge packages), I tried to use
>
>    mkoctfile helloworld.cc
>
> resulting in the following output:
>> octave:1> mkoctfile helloworld.cc
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfftw3
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> helloworld.o is created, but obviously the linker has a problem.  
> What is
> missing?
>
> Thanks for help in advance,
>
> JFD

You don't have the headers for the fftw3 installed,
I'm not familiar with cygwin but on most unix systems these are
in a package called fftw3-devel so I guess it is the same for
cygwin.

c.

P.S. I think this time the question was to be posted on the octave  
mailing list as it is about
mkoctfile which is in the octave core distribution