Re: [OctDev] Re: matcompat for PC?

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> If you  must have
> the functions in the oct file, then you will need to recompile octave with the
> source in the the src/DLD-FUNCTIONS subdirectory and listed on the DLD_XSRC line
> in src/Makefile.  I don't know what flags are used to build on the PC.  It may be
> that "./configure ; make " is all you need to do and it will figure out that it
> is a PC and that it should compile a static version of Octave, or it may be that you
> have to explicitly force it to be static.  Whatever the case, write it up on
> INSTALL.win so we can include it on the octave-forge site.  Thanks,

you need to edit a Makefile, and edit the oct files and put them
in the src/DLD-FUNCTIONS directory.

The build works fine with ./configure ; make

Here is an old email about it.

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Andy Adler,                ad...@nc...

>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> I assume you are using 2.1.x.  As Dirk said, you can drop the
>> functions in with the sources, and that's about it.  If you put the
>> functions in the src/DLD-FUNCTIONS directory, then you would also
>> need to add the names of the .cc files to the DLD_XSRC list in
>> src/Makefile.in and then run
>>
>>   CONFIG_FILES=src/Makefile ./config.status
>>   make
>>
>> in the top-level build directory.
>>
>
>I've found (at least for the win32 build) that you need
>to edit the include files section as well. I posted my recipe
>in http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2000/1639
>
>Change the includes in foobar.cc
>   replace #include <oct.h>
>   with    #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
>           #include <config.h>
>           #endif
>           #include "defun-dld.h"
>           #include "error.h"
>           #include "gripes.h"
>           #include "oct-obj.h"
>           #include "utils.h"
>