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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Agnes Bousquier <agnes DOT bousquier AT etu DOT enseeiht DOT fr>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: using 'mkoctfile'
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:20:51 +0000
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> Hello,
> 
>    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 ?

Well, we could, if you had followed directions to tell us what
you had installed (by sending the output of 'cygcheck -svr'
as a text attachment):

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

But my guess is that you failed to install the readline
package (it is not a requirement to run various cygwin
programs, but it is a requirement if you intend on compiling
another application that links against readline).

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin readline maintainer

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