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

It's that easy...

• Compiling for your Ubuntu Desktop x64 Linux (tested for 14.xx)

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

• Compiling for a different Linux system

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