using 'mkoctfile'
John W. Eaton
jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Tue Feb 28 16:06:00 GMT 2006
On 28-Feb-2006, Agnes Bousquier wrote:
| I am using Octave 2.1.72 under cygwin and would like to generate .oct
| files thanks to the command 'mkoctfile'. Unfortunately, when I type
| mkoctfile myfile.cc
| the following message appears (in French) :
| /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld :
| can not find -lreadline
| collect2 : ld returned an execution state code
| Could anyone please tell me what is missing ?
I'm not sure why the readline library is not found. It should be
installed with just about any Cygwin install, and I think it is a
dependency of the Octave package.
But in any case, I think you need to be using gcc 3.3, otherwise you
will likely have problems. There is more information here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00738.html.
jwe
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