Using NSI, I built (mainly as a try-out) a pre-compiled package of octave, with
the main support tools included. This package contains:
- octave with support for BLAS, LAPACK, SparseSuite, HDF5, ZLIB, GLPK, Pcre and FFTW
- gnuplot
- support tools (less, sed, makeinfo; actually just the EXE and DLL's)
The problem of the support tools installation path was solved pretty easily as the
bin directory of Octave is put automatically into PATH at startup; hence the EXE
just have to be in the bin directory.
I thought this could be a easy way for windows people to give octave a try. The
problem I have for the moment is the size of the package, ~13MB. I can't send
that by e-mail (because of our mail server), nor do I have on-line storage space
where I could put it publicly. So if anybody has an idea, I'd be glad to pass it
to anyone interested.