Octave for Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

→‎Installers for Microsoft Windows: Remove sentence about recommended installation directory that differs from the default value of the installer. (Motivation of that sentence was unclear.)
(Do not claim that support for 32-bit Windows has discontinued. Only difference is that the Octave project no longer distributes binaries for that platform.)
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The easiest way to install GNU Octave on Microsoft Windows is by using [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/ MXE] builds.  For the current release, both 32-bit and 64-bit installers and zip archived packages (.zip and .7z formats) can be found at https://octave.org/download under the Windows tab.  
The easiest way to install GNU Octave on Microsoft Windows is by using [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/ MXE] builds.  For the current release, both 32-bit and 64-bit installers and zip archived packages (.zip and .7z formats) can be found at https://octave.org/download under the Windows tab.  


* For executable (.exe) installers: the user can simply run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen installation prompts.  It is recommended that the installation path does not include non-ASCII characters. The directory {{Path|%USERPROFILE%\GNU Octave\Octave-X.y.z}} is recommended to ease installing additional packages at a later date.  Shortcuts to the program will be created automatically and the post-install script will be run automatically. But with some systems, you may have to run the {{Path|post-install.bat}} file before running Octave the first time to reduce plot delays due to the Windows font cache and make the pre-installed packages visible to the system.  
* For executable (.exe) installers: the user can simply run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen installation prompts.  It is recommended that the installation path does not include non-ASCII characters. Shortcuts to the program will be created automatically and the post-install script will be run automatically. But with some systems, you may have to run the {{Path|post-install.bat}} file before running Octave the first time to reduce plot delays due to the Windows font cache and make the pre-installed packages visible to the system.  


* For the 7z/zip archives:  
* For the 7z/zip archives:  
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