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− | Octave can be built on cygwin too !
| + | #REDIRECT [[Octave for Microsoft Windows#GNU Octave on cygwin]] |
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− | ==Pre-requisites==
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− | Setup your system the same way as described on the page [[Octave for Debian systems]]. The next step, required to generate the documentation, is to tweak a bit the texlive configuration file: (remember cygwin has no sudo command)
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− | vi /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c
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− | Change
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− | TEXMFLOCAL = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-site
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− | into
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− | TEXMFLOCAL = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-site:$TEXMFROOT/texmf
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− | Then run
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− | mktexlsr
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− | ==Configure==
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− | Proceed the same way as on a Unix platform. In this case, the procedure requires a kind of bootstrapping, so it is better to put Octave outside the main directory tree; like f.i.
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− | ./bootstrap
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− | mkdir compile; cd compile
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− | ../configure --prefix=${HOME}/usr
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− | This configuration supposes ${HOME}/usr/bin exists and is in your $PATH.
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− | ==Build==
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− | The procedure is a bit more tricky. Start the build as usual:
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− | make -j 2
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− | It will fail after a looong time, while trying to launch ./run-octave. This is a well-known problem, partly caused by issues with the fork() call under Windows platforms. At this time, change run-octave to something simpler:
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− | #! /bin/sh
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− | octave_executable="${PREFIX}/usr/bin/octave"
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− | "$octave_executable" "$@"
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− | Where ${PREFIX} matches the form previously used during the configure stage. In fact, we will use the new Octave, which is not yet operationnal. But never mind. Restart the process as follows:
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− | make install
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− | This way:
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− | # The Octave libs and binaries have been generated, they will be copied into their final destination directory.
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− | # the doc has still to be built. With the modified "run-octave", the executable which will be called is the version just installed during the previous step. Now the doc generation will succeed, and so will its installation.
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− | Enjoy!
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− | [[Category:Installation]]
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− | [[Category:Building]]
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− | [[Category:Microsoft Windows]]
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