Re: Octave GUI MinGW first light & need help.

Sebastien Loisel wrote:

> Uh oh, this could get hairy.
>
> On 2/15/06, *David Bateman* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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
>
Sorry, this is pretty much what I did. I think it has to do with my 
minimal mingw install for octave. I'd imagine to get it to work I might 
have to reproduce you setup with a second mingw version installed just 
for the build.. I think I'll wait to see what you do...

Cheers
David

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