Re: Availability of GNU Octave 3.8 on Windows

[KME]

Philip Nienhuis wrote
> Please don't top post.
> 
> Reply BELOW the mail text.
> rf wrote
>> Hi Markus,
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick reply. I had Octave 3.6 installed but I uninstalled
>> it.
>> 
>> The problem seems to be that there is another libstdc++-6.dll on my
>> computer from Tomboy, which uses GTK#. When I try to start Octave with
>> gui
>> I get the following error:
>> 
>> "The procedure entry point __gxx_personality_v0 could not be located in
>> the
>> dynamic link library libstdc++-6.dll"
>> 
>> So when I add the Octave directory (C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\bin) to the
>> beginning of the path then it seems to find the correct libstdc++-6.dll
>> and
>> the Octave gui works. But then Tomboy doesn't work any more because it
>> finds the Octave libstdc++-6.dll.
> What you can do is create a batch file to start Octave, along the lines
> of:
> 
> @echo off
> set PATH=\full\path\to\Octave\bin;rest of PATH, optionally cleaned up
> (throw Tomboy and other stuff out);
> start octave --force-gui
> exit
> 
> The line "start octave --force-gui" may need to be amended (bin needs to
> be first in the PATH); possibly the actual executable octave-gui.exe lives
> somewhere in \full\path\to\octave\libexec\... (other people can tell where
> exactly).
> 
> Philip

Thanks Philip!
This helped me. Now I´m up and running!

Karin



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