MinGW build and FTGL library for Octave 3.1.55

[Alexander Mamonov]

Hello Tatsuro,

Thank you for your work on Octave version for Windows. After Michael
has withdrawn his MSVC distribution from Sourceforge, your version
remains the only option for Windows users.
However, that version is rather outdated (3.0.2). Do you have any
plans to make a release of 3.0.5 anytime soon? Not having a latest
Windows binary is one of the reasons why I'm going through a rather
painful (at least for a Windows user like me) process of building
Octave with mingw. I hope that my experience will help to improve
Octave somehow (at least I found a bug in configure script preventing
OpenGL to work in mingw, that John was so kind to fix).
I really want the excellent piece of software that Octave is, to be
adopted by a wide range of users, and for that a high quality binary
Windows distribution is essential.

Regars,
Alex

2009/5/6 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant at yahoo.co.jp>:
> Hello
>
>
> --- Alexander Mamonov  wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the patch. After doing autoconf ./configure detects the
>> libraries correctly. I cannot check whether the build process itself
>> works, since for my gcc version 3.4.5 it breaks because of compiler
>> bugs.
>
> GCC-3.4.5 is obsolete for building octave in the development branch.
>
> I recommend to use TDM's GCC/mingw32 Builds.
> http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/
>
> Latest release at present (2009-05-06) is 4.4.0-tdm-1.
>
> I have been using GCC-4.3.3-1.  I mainly use Dwarf2 EH version because the speed of octave interpreter
> is 20-30% faster than that built b Sjll version.  However, for the stability, the sllj version might
> be better. In details, please read README-gcc-tdm.txt in the release package.
>
>
> **************
> BTW, I have introduce my distribution of a build kit under MinGW GCC-4.3.3-dw2-TDM for octave 3.0.5.
>
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/index.html
>
> 0005 OctaveBuild.zip, 8,380,551 bytes, 2009-04-28, md5 3587b65873be7d5e2b38a671162fa61e, octave build
> tool kit under the MinGW
>
> 0006 ReadmeBriefOctBuildMingw.html, 11,748 bytes, 2009-05-04, md5 1a52737ad283dfd8178159edc1720dc3,
> Brief explanation for the octave build tool kit under the MinGW, please read this before use.
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>
>
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