MXE

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

• Compiling for Windows

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

• Compiling for your Linux system

1. Download MXE-Octave as a compressed file.
2. Unpack it in ~ or somewhere suitable.
3. cd into the directory (called ~/mxe-octave-123456789 or similiar).
4. Type: autoconf
5. Type: ./configure --enable-64 --enable-native-build --enable-pic-flag host_alias=gnu-linux --enable-openblas --enable-jit
6. Type: make
7. vi src/openblas.mk and set USE_THREAD=1
8. Type: make openblas
9. cd usr/lib
10. mv libblas.so libblas.so.reference
11. ln -s libopenblas.so libblas.so
12. Octave will exist in ~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin
13. Add to your .bashrc file: alias octave=~/mxe-octave-123456789/usr/bin/octave

It's that easy...

• Compiling for a different Linux system

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