Re: Pre-compiled octave for Windows

[Paul Kienzle]

On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:14 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
>   
>  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.

You can put the test file on the project web space at source-forge.

Make sure you do not run afoul of the acceptable use policy.

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placed in the File Release System, not project web space;

If you use it as a temporary sharing site you should be fine.

Alternatively, you can create a new category of alpha releases and use 
the usual file release system.

        - Paul