Re: Question on building 32-bit octave

Am 04. April 2022 um 14:17 Uhr schrieb "John Ferreira":
> Hello,
> I have a 32 bit legacy application that uses octave for matrix multiplication. We are migrating from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7. On RHEL 7, there doesn't seem to be an octave.i686 binary available in any repository. Is it possible for me to build from source a 32 bit version of octave that will run on RHEL 7?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> John F.
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In principle, it should be possible to compile Octave for 32-bit hosts (bare metal or emulated). (We are still doing that for 32-bit Windows with MXE Octave.)
You'd need to have access to a (cross-)compiler that supports C++11 (GCC 4.8 or newer?).
You'd also need all dependencies for the same host platform.
General build instructions are on the Wiki:
https://wiki.octave.org/Building

HTH,
Markus



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