[Scilab-users] Setting compilers in Preferences: a good target for Scilab 6.1

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

Le 31/03/2017 à 23:02, phillip mobley a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I seem to be running into an interesting issue with my xcos code, I am 
> getting an error that it is unable to find a c compiler.
>
> I am running win 10 and scilab 5.5.2
>
> I have installed visual studio 2015. I am not too sure if it will pick 
> up on this compiler. If not, I have downloaded the latest version of 
> mingw and installed the dynamic linker for sci-lab and the program is 
> still having issue with finding a compiler.
>
> I was wondering if anyone here may have ran into a similar issue or if 
> I could get some help in getting scilab to find a compatible compiler?

This most recent testimonial lengthens the already long list of similar 
posted issues.

The Scilab Preferences system is available since Scilab 5.4.0, so for 
almost 5 years.
It is somewhat hard to understand why compilers are not explicitly set 
in the Preferences,
instead of using a labyrinthine system of internal macros hard to 
maintain to /try/ to
detect installed compilers.

This wish for simplifying and making Scilab more reliable and simple to 
use with compilers
is reported @ http://bugzilla.scilab.org/12355

Implementing this in Preferences, and replacing calls to automatic 
detection with
Preferences settings in Scilab macros, could be a priority for Scilab 6.1

Best regards
Samuel Gougeon

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