[Rcpp-devel] RcppOctave on Windows: testing needed

[Dominick Samperi]

A few additional close out notes:
1. It turns out that Apple (and Homebrew) no longer support Fortran, so
    I had to specify an external Fortran compiler and options:
$ export F77="/usr/local/bin/gfortran -arch x86_64"
$ brew install octave --default-fortran-flags "-O2"
2. The fortran compiler can be obtained from AT&T (Simon Urbenek).
3. I think the build uses clang/clang++ and not gcc/g++
   (because Apple no longer supports the latter), so there
   is the potential for ABI problems when this version of
   Octave is used with RcppOctave.
4. I think brew can be instructed to use gcc/g++ by
   setting CC and CXX.


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<lianoglou.steve at gene.com>wrote:

> Just to close this out (for posterity again).
>
> Dominick had pointed out to me off list that the octave formula isn't
> in the default homebrew install, and to get it you've got to "tap"
> their science repository by following the instructions here:
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science
>
> I had forgotten that I added those a while ago, so thanks again Dominick!
>
> -steve
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Steve Lianoglou
> <lianoglou.steve at gene.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The problem here is that Mac Ports installs a very old version of
> Octave.
> >> Installing the latest version (3.6.4) from source seems to resolve the
> >> issue. At least .O$version() works!
> >>
> >> Installing Octave from source under MacOS takes some work due
> >> to many dependencies, and the need for work-arounds for Apple
> >> changes and deprecated features. See, for example:
> >> http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Mac
> >
> > Nice work!
> >
> > For the sake of future wanderers landing on this thread via google,
> > these days the "preferred" package manager on OSX seems to be
> > homebrew:
> >
> > http://brew.sh
> >
> > It's so good, Simon Urbanek doesn't hate it, yet ... which is not to
> > say that he endorses it ;-)
> >
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2013-September/010303.html
> >
> > They've also got the latest octave on tap:
> >
> >   $ brew info octave | head -n2
> >   octave: stable 3.6.4
> >   http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index.html
> >
> > HTH,
> > -steve
> >
> > --
> > Steve Lianoglou
> > Computational Biologist
> > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
> > Genentech
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Computational Biologist
> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
> Genentech
>
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