X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "John W. Eaton" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17412.29637.597024.865261@segfault.lan> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:01:09 -0500 To: Agnes Bousquier Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: using 'mkoctfile' In-Reply-To: <440470D9.1040807@etu.enseeiht.fr> References: <440470D9.1040807@etu.enseeiht.fr> X-CAE-MailScanner-Information: Please contact security@engr.wisc.edu if this message contains a virus or has been corrupted in delivery. X-CAE-MailScanner: Found to be clean (benji) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/