[Scilab-Dev] Windows build prerequisites for scilab (GIT master)

[Enrico Segre]

Enrico Segre wrote:
>
>> By the way, for your matio problem: have you added a --enable-shared 
>> option to the configure script of matio ?
>> By default, matio builds a static library which is not detected by 
>> scilab (it detects only shared library).
>
> no, in fact I didn't think of, and was surprised that at the end of 
> the build I had only .a. Now make install finally puts libmatio.so in 
> /usr/local/lib/, thanks.
>
For the record, it turns out that for matio I need also

 export CFLAGS=-fPIC; ./configure --enable-shared

and for scilab

  ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmatio.so.0 $SCI/bin/

to make scilab build happily.

Enrico