Octave for Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

*'''Maintainer:''' Nitzan Arazi

*'''Latest update:''' 2011-10-14

*Packages are archived by the 7zip. The 7zip software can be download from http://www.7-zip.org/

*GNU Octave, version 3.4.2 (i686-pc-mingw32)

*A new fltk graphics_toolkit is available

*gnuplot 4.4.3

*fig2dev 3.2.5c

*ghostscript 9.0.2

*PSTOEDIT 3.50

*Msys + MinGW? tool chains

*some Octave-forge packages  

**actuarial-1.1.0  

**ad-1.0.6  

**audio-1.1.4  

**benchmark-1.1.1  

**bim-1.0.2 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**bioinfo-0.1.2  

**civil-engineering-1.0.7  

**communications-1.1.0 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**control-2.2.0 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**data-smoothing-1.2.3 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**dataframe-0.8.2  

**econometrics-1.0.8  

**fenv-0.1.0  

**financial-0.3.2  

**fpl-1.2.0  

**fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.2.4 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**ga-0.9.8  

**general-1.2.2  

**generate_html-0.1.3  

**geometry-1.1.3 (added on 2011-10-14)  

**gnuplot-1.0.1  

**gpc-0.1.7  

**gsl-1.0.8  

**ident-1.0.7  

**image-1.0.15 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**informationtheory-0.1.8  

**integration-1.0.7  

**io-1.0.15 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**irsa-1.0.7  

**java-1.2.8 (Updated 2011-09-07)  

**linear-algebra-2.0.0_svn20111014 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**mapping-1.0.7  

**mechanics-1.1.0 (added on 2011-10-14)  

**miscellaneous-1.0.11 (Updated 2011-09-14)  

**missing-functions-1.0.2  

**msh-1.0.2  

**multicore-0.2.15  

**nlwing2-1.2.0  

**nnet-0.1.13  

**nurbs-1.3.5 (Updated 2011-10-14)  

**ocs-0.1.1  

**oct2mat-1.0.7  

**octclip-1.0.0  

**octgpr-1.2.0  

**odebvp-1.0.6  

**odepkg-0.8.0  

**optim-1.0.16  

**optiminterp-0.3.3  

**outliers-0.13.9  

**physicalconstants-0.1.7  

**plot-1.0.8  

**quaternion-1.0.0  

**secs1d-0.0.8  

**secs2d-0.0.8  

**secs3d-0.0.1 (added on 2011-10-14)  

**signal-1.0.11  

**simp-1.1.0  

**sockets-1.0.7_svn20111014 (updated 2011-10-14)  

**specfun-1.0.9  

**special-matrix-1.0.7  

**spline-gcvspl-1.0.8  

**splines-1.0.7  

**statistics-1.0.10  

**strings-1.0.7  

**struct-1.0.9  

**symband-1.0.10  

**symbolic-1.0.9  

**tcl-octave-0.1.8  

**time-1.0.9  

**tsa-4.1.1  

**video-1.0.2  

**vrml-1.0.12_svn20111014_patched (added 2011-10-14)  

**windows-1.1.0 (Updated 2011-09-07)  

**xraylib-1.0.8  

**zenity-0.5.7

*Read readme.txt in Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_20110914.7z

*Unzip to a directory which doesn't have space chars i.e. C:\Octave\Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2\ keeping the directory structure in the archive.

*Copy octave.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties respectively to point to octave.exe and octave.ico.

*Read Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_readme.txt and Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_changes.txt in Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20110914.7z.

*In order to update octave_packages database and auto-load most packages (excluding 'ad' and 'windows' which may crash octave when loaded and 'clear all' is executed), launch Octave and execute:

*You can adjust your installed packages status per your specific needs and usage by executing one of the following commands:

*To interactively load or unload a package

*: or

*To disable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

*To enable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

*To completely uninstall a package

==Octave-3.4.3-mingw + octaveforge pkgs==

#Octave-3.4.3-mingw (without pkgs)

#: Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_20111025.7z - MD5:5AA004D933E000E762AE2AE95573ACBD - http://www.multiupload.com/KDQ1N463UW  

#Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.4.3-mingw

#: Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20111026.7z - MD5:2987F6078B4AD161F2D23634D5109D61 - http://www.multiupload.com/7U6J23CSZ6  

*'''Maintainer:''' Nitzan Arazi

*'''Latest update:''' 2011-10-26

*Packages are archived by 7zip. 7zip software can be download from http://www.7-zip.org/

*GNU Octave, version 3.4.3 (i686-pc-mingw32)

*A new fltk graphics_toolkit is available

*gnuplot 4.4.3

*fig2dev 3.2.5c

*ghostscript 9.0.2

*PSTOEDIT 3.50

*Msys + MinGW? tool chains

*PDF and html documentation

*some Octave-forge packages  

**actuarial-1.1.0  

**ad-1.0.6  

**audio-1.1.4  

**benchmark-1.1.1  

**bim-1.0.2  

**bioinfo-0.1.2  

**civil-engineering-1.0.7  

**combinatorics-1.0.9  

**communications-1.1.0_patched  

**control-2.2.0  

**data-smoothing-1.2.3  

**dataframe-0.8.2  

**econometrics-1.0.8  

**fenv-0.1.0  

**financial-0.3.2  

**fpl-1.2.0  

**fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.2.4  

**ga-0.9.8  

**general-1.2.2  

**generate_html-0.1.3  

**geometry-1.2.0  

**gnuplot-1.0.1  

**gpc-0.1.7  

**gsl-1.0.8  

**ident-1.0.7  

**image-1.0.15  

**informationtheory-0.1.8  

**integration-1.0.7  

**io-1.0.15 + supporting java jars  

**irsa-1.0.7  

**java-1.2.8_patched + java.opts file  

**linear-algebra-2.0.0_svn20111014  

**mapping-1.0.7  

**mechanics-1.1.0  

**miscellaneous-1.0.11_svn20110912  

**missing-functions-1.0.2  

**msh-1.0.2  

**multicore-0.2.15  

**nlwing2-1.2.0  

**nnet-0.1.13  

**nurbs-1.3.5  

**ocs-0.1.1_patched  

**octclip-1.0.0  

**octgpr-1.2.0  

**odebvp-1.0.6  

**odepkg-0.8.0  

**optim-1.0.16  

**optiminterp-0.3.3  

**outliers-0.13.9  

**physicalconstants-0.1.7  

**plot-1.0.8  

**quaternion-1.0.0  

**secs1d-0.0.8  

**secs2d-0.0.8  

**secs3d-0.0.1  

**signal-1.0.11  

**simp-1.1.0  

**sockets-1.0.7_svn20111014  

**specfun-1.0.9  

**special-matrix-1.0.7  

**spline-gcvspl-1.0.8  

**splines-1.0.7  

**statistics-1.0.10  

**strings-1.0.7  

**struct-1.0.9  

**symband-1.0.10  

**symbolic-1.1.0  

**tcl-octave-0.1.8  

**time-1.0.9  

**tsa-4.1.1  

**video-1.0.2_patched  

**vrml-1.0.12_svn20111014_patched  

**windows-1.1.0  

**xraylib-1.0.8  

**zenity-0.5.7

*Read readme.txt in Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_20111025.7z

*Unzip to a directory which doesn't have space chars i.e. C:\Octave\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\ keeping the directory structure in the archive.

*Copy octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties respectively to point to bin\octave.exe and share\octave\3.4.3\imagelib\octave-logo.ico.

*Copy octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_docs.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties respectively to point to doc\octave and share\octave\3.4.3\imagelib\octave-logo.ico.

*Read Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_readme.txt in Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20111026.7z.

*In order to update octave_packages database and auto-load most packages (excluding 'ad' and 'windows' which may crash octave when loaded and 'clear all' is executed), launch Octave and execute:

*Last pkg rebuild command is required in order for the java pkg entry to be moved to the top of share\octave\octave_packages db file - thus java pkg is loaded before io pkg is loaded, and io pkg related jars are added to java class path.

*You can adjust your installed packages status per your specific needs and usage by executing one of the following commands:

*To interactively load or unload a package

*:or

*To disable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

*To enable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

*To completely uninstall a package

== Octave 3.4.2 on cygwin==

'''Web-Site:''' http://cygwin.com  

*octave 3.4.2-3

*octave-forge packages octave-forge-20110730-1

*Please select them in Math category in the cygwin setup (using setup.exe).

*:On Cygwin 1.7.9-1 the communication between octave and gnuplot is broken due to a cygwin bug. Please use a cygwin snapshot or 1.7.8-1 until cygwin-1.7.10-1 is released. Cygwin 1.7.8-1 is reported to currently work, but snapshots have notable performance improvements, so they are recommended.

*To install a cygwin snapshot:

**download cygwin1-20111020.dll.bz2 (current last) from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

**exit all cygwin processes and from windows explorer  

**copy the cygwin1.dll snapshot to

*Graphics is based on X, so to plot you need to start octave within xterm (or similar).

*A new fltk graphics_toolkit is available, and the crash on "print" issue was solved on 3.4.2-3 using the patch proposed here:  

*If a dlls collision arise, the correct invocation of the rebase utility within dash shell is:

*:as octave dll's use unexpected ".oct" suffix for its own extension.

*For general build notes, see "etc/README.Cygwin".

*When building from development source (default branch)  

     "make check"  

*:passes almost all the tests.  

*:Only, and not substantial, failures are:

*To build from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries

*:see cygport documentation for further info.

*currently octave depends on the following packages

**zlib0-1.2.5-1