

-enable-binary-packages: Cross-compile binary modules in Octave Forge packages.Your only options are to make 7z-dist, zip-dist or tar-dist installers. Beware as the total Octave distribution will be > 2 GB, the max.

If you seriously want to work with gdb, you need -disable-strip-dist-files as configure option to keep debug symbols in the installed binaries for debugging on MS Windows.-enable-devel-tools: Include gdb and an MSYS shell in the binary.

The individual options have the following meaning (see also. The current Microsoft Windows installers are build in three "flavors": for common 64- and 32-bit systems ( "w64" and "w32") and for 64-bit systems exceeding 32 GB of main memory to store large data structures ( "w64-64"). bootstrap (Among other things, the bootstrap script creates the configure script for the next step.)
