Octave Anyone?

[flyguy]

This would be very useful for me.  I'm not sure how to compile anything.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Louis

[stuffman]

I've been wanting this for a while now too. I just built TiEmu (Emulates TI calculators), and besides being slow, it works pretty well. Nonetheless, it is not nearly beefy enough for serious computations... I think if I have some free time this weekend (I should), I'll take a look and see if I can get a working build (but don't hold your breath- I've only started doing this whole compiling thing, so if it isn't an easy build, it's unlikely I'll get it working).

[Hrw]

Louis: maybe go OpenZaurus?

[lardman]

I just bumped Octave up to 2.1.71 and I've got 2.9.3 working.

Cheers,


Si

[jcabrer]

I'll try to compile it later today and post an ipk.

[lardman]

Octave should be a straight compile assuming you've got GCC 3.xx and g77.


Si

[Zumi]

Octave should be a straight compile assuming you've got GCC 3.xx and g77.

Si
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The problem is that pdaXrom GCC doesn't have Fortran support. And I wasn't able to compile a fortran -> C compiler when I tried and didn't want to recompile GCC with g77 because it takes a lot time.

Considering these, it will be a hard job to compile Octave for pdaXrom, unless somebody makes a developer toolchain with g77. In the end I used it from a chrooted Debian; it worked well, but it's really slow that way.

Zumi

[sashz]

Octave should be a straight compile assuming you've got GCC 3.xx and g77.

Si
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The problem is that pdaXrom GCC doesn't have Fortran support. And I wasn't able to compile a fortran -> C compiler when I tried and didn't want to recompile GCC with g77 because it takes a lot time.

Considering these, it will be a hard job to compile Octave for pdaXrom, unless somebody makes a developer toolchain with g77. In the end I used it from a chrooted Debian; it worked well, but it's really slow that way.

Zumi
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i aded g77 in xchain config.
octave and another math apps will available in official feed in new rc

[Laze]

Louis: maybe go OpenZaurus?
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Hrw: Don't you read the OZ forums (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12794) - don't make post about OZ in this thread and vice versa.

[Chero]

Louis: maybe go OpenZaurus?
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Hrw: Don't you read the OZ forums (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12794) - don't make post about OZ in this thread and vice versa.
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I thought it was nice that everyone just ignored this post.

[lardman]

I thought the point was to say that Octave is available somewhere, in this case for OZ users. I'm not sure there's a great deal of harm in letting people know that a package is available.

In fact it's my post which should be receiving the abuse for mentioning things other than Octave...

Sorry (and I've edited it to remove this info)


Si

[Hrw]

exactly like lardman wrote

Some users want to use PDA as mobile tool for one-two apps - when app is not available in one distro but is in other then user can look at the other one to check does it works ok for him or spend time on getting it build etc for already used distro.

If I will want to play Quake2 then I will first go pdaX to look how it works - and then I eventually would try to build it for OZ. Not vice-versa.

[flyguy]

I just bumped Octave up to 2.1.71 and I've got 2.9.3 working.

Cheers,


Si
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You have it working in OZ or pdaXrom?  I'm guessing OZ . . . So would I just install OZ and get it from the feed?  Although I finally have pdaXrom the way I like it . . . rc12 w/ XFCE and ROX is quite nice (esp. after playing with themes, and with the speedup).  Where would I learn how to compile things for pdaX?



Louis

[lardman]

Yes it works with OZ, though I'm not sure it's in the feed as I may have added it after the 3.5.3 release. If you want it I can ask hrw to build it or send you a copy.

Where would I learn how to compile things for pdaX?

Corss-compiling Octave in particular is very easy, it doesn't require any patches, etc., just the standard --host and --build passed to the configure script and it's away.

If this thread weren't in the pdaXrom part of the forum I'd encourage you to try OZ to see what it's like, but as you say you have pdaXrom setup as you like it and assuming you can wait for the new toolchain/rc (see Sashz's post) then I'd recommend you do that.


Si

[flyguy]

Yes it works with OZ, though I'm not sure it's in the feed as I may have added it after the 3.5.3 release. If you want it I can ask hrw to build it or send you a copy.

Where would I learn how to compile things for pdaX?

Corss-compiling Octave in particular is very easy, it doesn't require any patches, etc., just the standard --host and --build passed to the configure script and it's away.


Si
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i don't know enough to know what --host and --build mean.

I installed hentege's new image for C1000 (painful to delete all my work on rc12 etc.)  This seems lightyears ahead of when i tried OZ before.  Really annoying on-key thing, but other than that it seems to be working...

is octave in ipkg form?  could someone possibly attach it to a post?  how do you install things in OZ - like

ipkg -d sd install /locationofipkg  ??

thanks,

Louis