Re: Octave GUI MinGW first light & need help.

Uh oh, this could get hairy.

On 2/15/06, David Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ok, here I have a problem. Firstly the install of QT4 stated that it
> couldn't find MinGW when it was clearly there. Then I had to copy


I had a pre-existing QT4 installation against my pre-existing MinGW in
c:\MinGW, but in principle it should be able to use the one in
c:\MinGW\octave (I'm using MinGW 4.1.0 I think...)

mingw32-make.exe to make.exe, while msys' installer explicitly stated
> that this is a bad idea. Finally I had to take msys' /bin/sh.exe. Then I


What you have to do is use Windows's cmd.exe and set the path

set PATH=c:\octave\MinGW\bin;%PATH%

That's what I have in compileenv.bat

still get an error as sh.exe is looking for the msys dll... What shell
> did you use if not msys' one?


Don't use msys's shell for compiling for now.

These problems will be alleviated once I port octave-gui to autotools from
qmake. (The other choice being of porting octave from autotools to qmake.
Autotools wins.) If you can't get it working with the above instructions, I
guess I'll have to hurry up with my port. I'm back in Linux now, for that
purpose, so I can't doublecheck my MinGW.

Sebastien Loisel