John,
You are correct octave for windows uses cygwin. It is somewhat 'stripped
down'. To me anyway that is the purpose of making such a package. Why make a
windows user who may or maynot have any idea how to use any flavor of unix
download Cygwin, and then install octave wether compiling from source, of
even installing a binary package. Windows users are used to nice easy click
one button installshield installation of software, and that is what I have
tried to provide here. There are no development tools like gcc. There is no
lynx web browser, or other things that would only confuse the average user.
My goal is to make cygwin invisible, so that the user does not even have to
concern themselves with such things like mount tables, paths, /etc/profile,
and what have you.
To be honest I thought that the three that you mentioned where in the
installation. The installer uses sed! perhaps I missed something, I have
not looked at this project in a long time. If there some specific commands
like grep, awk, sed that you want/need I can send then to you. The version
of cygwin in your distro is old and you can not get it from the cygwin site
anymore.
If you want to compile octave yourself, go for it. it compiles OOTB. I did
not do any source modifications. I just wanted to give people who do not
want to learn about linux a chance to use octave.
just goto www.cygwin.com and click on their install now icon.
Tom Weichmann
On Friday, August 10, 2001 12:43 pm, John Day wrote:
> I am using the Windows binary ver 2.1.33 (downloaded from
> http://members.localnet.com/~tomcw/) which installs itself in a
> stripped-down Cygwin environment. I say "stripped down" because some basic
> Unix text tools (grep awk sed etc) seem to be missing.
>
> Some contributed m-files (aload,asave etc) depend on these tools via system
> calls.
>
> Is there any way to obtain and install these Unix tools onto an existing
> Cygwin/Octave binary installation? Is it possible to complete the Cygwin
> installation in such a way that gcc could be installed to rebuild Octave
> from the sources?
>
> Thanks,
> John Day
>
>
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