Re: Windows-1-1.0.tar.gz

[Philip Nienhuis]

Rtupper wrote
> 
> I'm running GNU Octave, version 3.6.1 on Cygwin on Windows 7 and need to
> be able to use the xlsread function.  As such, I've installed io-1.0.18,
> but when attempting to install the windows-1.1.0 package, I get some
> errors:
> Makefile:27: recipe for target `__COM__.oct' failed
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-28a03c.2/Windows/src'
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> 
> As a result, the xlsread does not yet function.
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> 

I'm not familiar (anymore) with Octave on cygwin. But perhaps you can get
the Java package to work. If so, you can use the Java-based spreadsheet
interfaces.

Alternatively, you can install Octave for MinGW or MSVC. Both have the
windows package available (pre-compiled).

Philip

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