Hi, First of all, if you are considering helping in making the Octave OSX binary better, you are very welcome!
If you need help with this task you can continue asking questions on this mailing list but, if your questions are about the general Octave build system you will probably more easily find the support you need on <[email protected]> or [email protected]. Also, if you are thinking about building a new binary for Octave you should be looking at a more recent version than 3.2.3, the latest available stable version is 3.4.0. On 18 Apr 2011, at 17:43, Mattias Nyberg wrote: > Hi. > > I'm having a look at the MacOS 3.2.3 package of Octave and the structure of > it makes me wonder. Does it really need to look like that? > > I'm specifically wondering about the search paths for the dynamic libraries > and why there's a flood of static libraries also in the package. > > About the search paths: Shouldn't it be possible to contain all the libraries > in the application in a nicer way? Using "/tmp/deps-i386/" and a shell script > is not really the mac way of packaging things as far as I know of. > > Do you have a specific reason for avoiding "@executable_path/xx"? Does it > interfere with the ordinary build procedure or with how Octave functions, > like runtime loaded dylibs? > Anyhow. I think Octave.app is really nice but the package makes it a bit > problematic to use under certain circumstances I'd say. > > To sum up: > - Would a more macish packing procedure interfere with Octaves > functionality in any way? > - The reason I ask is because I do know how to package applications on the > Mac but I know nothing about the structure of Octave... yet :) > > I'd appreciate any assistance in this matter. The scripts that automatically build Octave.app are found in the source-forge repository here: <http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/MacOSX/> As far as I can recall since the last time I looked at it, the main idea is to build Octave using the standard UNIX toolchain and then rely on platypus <http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus> to create the actual application bundle. > Thank you for your time Thank you for your interest in contributing to Octave! c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
