Re: Reg: GSoD 2020- Documentation

Greetings,
I would like to thank you all for your guidance and support. I will
definitely use these steps and try to build octave . If I find any
difficulties, I will surely contact you.
Regards
Prubhtej Singh

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM Andrew Janke <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 5/6/20 12:10 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > On 5/6/20 1:18 AM, PRUBHTEJ SINGH wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >> I'm having a few difficulties in installing the dependencies through the
> >> terminal in mac .
> >> Is there any other way I can extract the documentation ?
> >> Hoping to hear from you soon
> >> Regards
> >> Prubhtej Singh
> >
> >
> > On 5/6/20 8:04 AM, Nir Krakauer wrote:
> >> Being able to build Octave would be important to a GSoD project, so
> >> you should learn how to do it. We can try to help you if you give
> >> details about the problem you had.
> >>
> >
> > Dear Prubhtej Singh,
> >
> > Nir is right.  If it is not possible to build Octave on a mac (I never
> > tried myself), maybe you should consider some virtualization technology,
> > e.g. VirtualBox [1], with Debian / Ubuntu for building Octave "in a box".
> >
> > HTH,
> > Kai
> >
> > [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> >
>
> If you just need Octave to be built, and not have to worry about working
> on the build system itself, you can use Homebrew with the custom Octave
> formulae provided by
> Octave.app [1]. To do so:
>
> * Install MacTeX from https://tug.org/mactex/
> * Install Homebrew from https://brew.sh/
> * Then, in the terminal:
>
> $ brew tap octave-app/octave-app
> $ brew install octave-default
>
> This will take care of installing all the dependencies for you, and
> applies a couple patches needed on Mac. It's worked pretty reliably for
> me for the past couple years.
>
> The "octave-default" formula builds and installs Octave from the head of
> the "default" branch, which is where the latest development takes place.
>
> If you then need to build Octave from a local checkout of the octave
> Mercurial repo (so you can see how your modifications to the doco look),
> you can use my Mac build scripts from
> https://github.com/apjanke/octave-build. These will build Octave against
> all the dependencies installed by Homebrew.
>
> macOS 10.13 or newer is required.
>
> If any of this doesn't work for you, let us know at
> https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues and we'll try to fix it.
> One of our goals is to make it easy for people to build and hack on
> Octave on macOS.
>
> (Octave.app is a third-party project dedicated to building and
> distributing Octave on Macs, maintained by Sebastian Schoeps and myself.)
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Janke
>
> [1] https://octave-app.org
>