MXE: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:21, 5 March 2015

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

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.
Check you have all the requirements, gfortan and libgl2ps-dev.
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
cd usr/lib
mv libblas.so libblas.so.reference
ln -s libopenblas.so libblas.so
Octave will exist in ~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin
Add to your .bashrc file: alias octave=~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin/octave

It's that easy...

In Ubuntu Desktop Linux 14.10 the above receipt fails during building BLAS library ...
I have found a working solution how to build Octave 3.8.2 with ---enable-64 in Ubuntu Desktop Linux - see:
BLOG: http://calaba.tumblr.com/post/107087607479/octave-64
GitHub: https://github.com/calaba/octave-3.8.2-enable-64-ubuntu-14.04

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 # Download [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave MXE-Octave] as a compressed file.
 # Unpack it in ~ or somewhere suitable.
-# Check you have all the [http://mxe.cc/#requirements requirements] and gfortan installed.
+# Check you have all the [http://mxe.cc/#requirements requirements], gfortan and libgl2ps-dev.
 # cd into the directory (called ~/mxe-octave-123456789 or similiar).
 # Type: autoconf