Re: Octave-3.6.0 testing binary built on MinGW

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Tatsuro:
>>> 
>>> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello
>>>> 
>>>> I have built the octave-3.6.0 and archived the installed directory trees.
>>>> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/
>>>> 
>>>> Please see Readme_octave-3.6.0.txt for details.
>>>> 
>>>> Note that this release is prepared for the testing purpose for experienced 
>>>> users.
>>> 
>>> (shouldn't follow-up be directed to address@hidden, rather than 
>>> address@hidden)
>>> 
>>> In a spare hour I've made a preliminary "win32 distribution" using the 
>>> steps outlined in the attached text, based on your build environment. In 
>>> hindsight I already spotted some room for improvement in this procedure, 
>>> but anyway this works too.
>>> Maybe we can add this text to the wiki later on.
>>> 
>>> Having done those steps, I'm able to install at least the java&  io 
>>> packages (using -forge option). They work OK AFAICS.
>>> 
>>> Installing the linear-algebra package doesn't work yet, due to a problem 
>>> with gsvd.oct ("dggsvd_" and "zggsvd_ not found").
>>> I had the same issues with 3.4.2; but Nitzan seemed to do better there.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I think your testing binary works good.
>>> 
>>> (And this week I'll try to prepare a new io pkg (bug fix release)
>>> 
>>> Philip
>> 
>> Philip,
>> 
>> I've been wanting some practice with the wiki, and started working on it a 
>> few days ago.
>> 
>> I hope you don't mind that I jumped in and created wiki page and populated 
>> it with your notes.
>> 
>>      http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Win32_Distribution
> 
> No problems, very good!
> 
> I noted that you've put it under "Installing ..." (though I perceive my text 
> rather as part of "building" instructions); while in the "Building" section 
> instructions are given ("Octave for Windows") that to me look more like 
> "installing".
> 
> I lack time for sorting this out but hopefully someone will fix this 
> inconsistency....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philip

I had thought you were describing how to install Octave for MinGW (using 
Tatsuro's libs and such).

Did I get that wrong ?

Ben