Revision as of 16:18, 27 September 2014

Based on the MXE project there is an MXE-Octave fork available to allow cross compiling Octave to various target systems.

Examples of compiling Octave for different platforms

There is some further information for using mxe-octave to build an Windows installer here: Windows_Installer.

Download MXE-Octave as a compressed file.
Unpack it in ~ or somewhere suitable.
cd into the directory (called ~/mxe-octave-123456789 or similiar).
Type: autoconf
Type: ./configure --enable-64 --enable-native-build --enable-pic-flag host_alias=gnu-linux --enable-openblas --enable-jit
Type: make
Type: make openblas
Octave will exist in ~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin
Add to your .bashrc file: alias octave=~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin/octave

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 Based on the [http://mxe.cc/ MXE] project there is an [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave MXE-Octave] fork available to allow cross compiling Octave to various target systems.
-=== Examples of compilation for different platforms ===
+= Examples of compiling Octave for different platforms =
-* Compiling for Windows.
+* '''Compiling for Windows'''
 # There is some further information for using mxe-octave to build an Windows installer here: [[Windows_Installer]].
-* Compiling for your Linux system.
+* '''Compiling for your Linux system'''
 # Download [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave MXE-Octave] as a compressed file.
 # Unpack it in ~ or somewhere suitable.
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-* Compiling for a different Linux system.
+* '''Compiling for a different Linux system'''
 === Packaging for distribution ===
 [[Category:Building]]