Re: [mxe] stable build from source

On 7/15/20 3:37 PM, Stefan Pofahl wrote:
> 
> 
> Am Mi., 15. Juli 2020 um 10:50 Uhr schrieb John W. Eaton <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
>     On 7/15/20 4:33 AM, Stefan Pofahl wrote:
> 
>      > I am still lost, maybe I misunderstood something.
>      > First I had to install: "PCRE library" (on ubuntu 20.04:
>     "pcre2-utils")
>      > because of this message:
>      > configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library
>     and
>      > header files installed
>      >
>      > After "./bootstrap" I stayed inside the root-dir of the
>     repository clone
>      > (for me: '~/hg/mxe-octave')
>      > and gave the command:
>      >
>      > |nice -n 19 make ||all 7z-dist ||JOBS=||8||hg-octave-dist
>     hg-octave-branch=stable|
> 
>     Don't include the "all 7z-dist" targets here.  Building the octave
>     source distribution from the hg archive must be done as a separate
>     step.
>        Try
> 
>         make JOBS=8 hg-octave-dist hg-octave-branch=stable
> 
>     If that is successful, then you can do
> 
>         make all 7z-dist JOBS=8
> 
>     to build Octave for Windows with all the packages.  Use whatever number
>     of jobs makes sense for your hardware.
> 
>     jwe
> 
> Unfortunately, the installation of "pcre2-utils" was not sufficient, the 
> error message is as follows:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and 
> header files installed
> make: *** [/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/hg-octave-dist.mk:34 
> <http://hg-octave-dist.mk:34>: hg-octave-dist] Fehler 1
> (base) X6630G:~/hg/mxe-octave$
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But I will try to sort this out as well.

If you are using Ubuntu, I would recommend starting with

   apt build-dep octave

jwe