MinGw toolbox

Comment from Allan CORNET -- August 31, 2010, 11:41:02 AM    

You need to install MinGW package distributed by Equation Solution

http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=programminglog

On Windows 32 bits platform
  (* x86) ftp://ftp.equation.com/gcc/gcc-4.5.0-32.exe

On Windows 64 bits platform
  with Scilab 32 bits:
  (* x86) ftp://ftp.equation.com/gcc/gcc-4.5.0-32.exe

  with Scilab 64 bits:
  (* x64) ftp://ftp.equation.com/gcc/gcc-4.5.0-64.exe

Comment from Steven Zalek -- September 2, 2010, 04:42:14 PM    

I am running Scilab-5.3.0-beta3_x64 on Win7_x64. I already had both MinGW32 and MinGW64
(ver 4.5.0) installed on my system with both 'c:\MinGW32\bin' and 'c:\MinGW64\bin' in my
PATH variable. However, when I start Scilab and the MinGW toolbox macros load I get the
following error:

Mingw Compiler support for Scilab
	Load macros
WARNING: MinGW Compiler not detected.
	Load help

Is there a system or Scilab variable that needs to be set in order to have Scilab
recognize that MinGW is already installed? I also have the current Code::Blocks IDE and
Eclipse IDE installed on my system and both of them recognize the MinGW installations and
can compile properly. so I don't believe there is an issue with my installation of MinGW.

Thanks

Comment from Allan CORNET -- September 2, 2010, 04:47:24 PM    

You need to use and downloaded here : http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?
fa=programminglog

Allan

Comment from James Phillips -- September 24, 2010, 11:36:39 PM    

I have installed sciliab-5.3.0-beta3 on winxp32, along with gcc-4.5.1 from the
equation.com website. I am trying to use your toolbox with modelica-based xcos models, but
I am running into trouble.

The commands

[modelica_path, modelica_directory] = getModelicaPath();
modelica_libs=modelica_path;

Prior to loading xcos solved some problems. However, I am still having problems linking
against msvcr90. I can see the dll in SCI/bin, but the mingw linker does not find it. It
gives the error message:

ld.exe: cannot find -lmsvcr90

I have tried several workarounds, none successfully. There is some question as to whether
ld can link against this dll without a link library - web pages give conflicting answers.

Is there a workaround that works?

Answer from Allan CORNET -- October 13, 2010, 03:53:26 PM    

> I have installed sciliab-5.3.0-beta3 on winxp32, along with gcc-4.5.1 from the
> equation.com website. I am trying to use your toolbox with modelica-based xcos models,
> but
> I am running into trouble.
> 
> The commands
> 
> [modelica_path, modelica_directory] = getModelicaPath();
> modelica_libs=modelica_path;
> 
> Prior to loading xcos solved some problems. However, I am still having problems linking
> against msvcr90. I can see the dll in SCI/bin, but the mingw linker does not find it.
> It
> gives the error message:
> 
> ld.exe: cannot find -lmsvcr90
> 
> I have tried several workarounds, none successfully. There is some question as to
> whether
> ld can link against this dll without a link library - web pages give conflicting
> answers.
> 
> Is there a workaround that works?


It should be fixed with 0.5 version

Allan