remez function (MacOSX)

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, October 03, 2008, at 08:11AM, "Marc Normandin" <mnormand at iupui.edu> wrote:
>Harbinson, Jeremy wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Looking over the Signal package
>> (_http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/funref_signal.html_), the remez
>> function is a 'cc' file rather than an 'm' file. I guess that 'cc' files
>> are c files, so I will need to compile it in some way, but I haven't a
>> clue how.
>> 
>> Perhaps if I need to ask these questions I should not be thinking of
>> trying to compile anything, but which compiler do I need and will it be
>> invoked automatically by the package installer, or is it (much) more
>> difficult than this?
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> all the best,
>> Jeremy Harbinson
>> 
>
>The cc files contain C++ source.  If you install the package, Octave
>will handle the compiling for you.  Installation should be as easy as
>
>  pkg install signal-1.0.8.tar.gz
>
>at the Octave prompt (assuming you've downloaded the package and your
>working directory is the place where the package file resides).
>
>Regards,
>Marc
>

Jeremy, if you get error that indicate you compilers are not present, download and install the latest Xcode for the version of OSX you are running.

    http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

If you have the Fink package manager installed, and are running OSX 10.5+ I suggest you install Xcode 3.0, rather than  3.1. Fink users have encountered some problems with 3.1 (which may have been resolved, but 3.0 works fine for me).

Ben


Ben