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/
