Octave for MinGW

Minimal instructions for installing Octave-3.6.0 on MinGW.

Installation Instructions for MinGW

Download Tatsuro's 3.6.0 binary, build env and dependency zips, and place their contents as described below.

msys-tm ⇒ \msys (msys\1.0\<> ⇒ .\msys)

• bin
• etc (Adapt fstab!!!)
• home
• postinstall
• share

mingw-tm ⇒ \mingw

• share: clean up, only keep doc/, info/, locale/ and man/
• keep the rest

gplibs

• bin ⇒ \bin
• etc ⇒ \etc
• include ⇒ \include
• lib ⇒ \lib
• share\man ⇒ mingw\share\man
• man ⇒ \mingw\man

Octavelibs

• bin ⇒ \bin
• lib ⇒ \lib
• man ⇒ \mingw\man
• share ⇒ \share
• include ⇒ \include

gnuwin32 ⇒ \gnuwin32

Add /license

Adapt /share/octave/3.6.0/m/starttup/octaverc (add editor, default dir) Adapt octave360.bat (proper paths to /bin, /mingw/bin, /msys/bin)

To do (incomplete list!)

• clean up
• add licenses from dependency libs
• ....

Philip Nienhuis, Jan 16, 2012