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To use Octave in MSYS2, install the MSYS2 environment following [https://www.msys2.org/#installation their instructions]. At the <code>bash</code> shell (use e.g. "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" from the start menu), update the installation by <code>pacman -Syu</code>. After that, install a version of Octave that matches your environment (and the shell you are using), e.g. <code>pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-octave</code>. | To use Octave in MSYS2, install the MSYS2 environment following [https://www.msys2.org/#installation their instructions]. At the <code>bash</code> shell (use e.g. "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" from the start menu), update the installation by <code>pacman -Syu</code>. After that, install a version of Octave that matches your environment (and the shell you are using), e.g. <code>pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-octave</code>. | ||
This will install (among others), the main executables of Octave <code>octave-gui</code> (linked with Qt, i.e., including the "qt" graphics toolkit and the GUI) | This will install (among others), the main executables of Octave <code>octave-gui</code> (linked with Qt, i.e., including the "qt" graphics toolkit and the GUI), <code>octave-cli</code> (linked without Qt, i.e., only "fltk" and "gnuplot" graphics toolkits and no GUI), and the wrapper executable <code>octave</code> that dispatches to one of the former executables depending on the used command line switches. The Octave GUI can be started with <code>octave --gui</code> from MSYS2's <code>bash</code> shell, the command line interface (CLI) with <code>octave</code>. | ||
=GNU Octave on [https://cygwin.com/ cygwin]= | =GNU Octave on [https://cygwin.com/ cygwin]= | ||
*'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri | *'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri | ||
*'''Latest release:''' | *'''Latest release:''' 2021-01-06 | ||
*Latest packages: | *Latest packages: | ||
:octave- | :octave-6.4.0-1 | ||
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https:// | :Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-January/010389.html] | ||
:Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package. | :Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package. | ||
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https:// | :Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin-announce/2017-01/msg00078.html] | ||
: Full cygwin package list is available here [https://cygwin.com/packages/] | : Full cygwin package list is available here [https://cygwin.com/packages/] | ||
: At 2017-04-06, 64 forge packages were available. | : At 2017-04-06, 64 forge packages were available. | ||
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==Notes for cygwin== | ==Notes for cygwin== | ||
* To build GNU Octave from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries | * To build GNU Octave from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries | ||
:<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | :<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
tar -xf octave- | tar -xf octave-6.4.0-1-src.tar.xz | ||
cygport octave.cygport almostall | cygport octave.cygport almostall | ||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
:see | :see cygport documentation at /usr/share/doc/cygport/html/manual/toc_index.html for further info. | ||
=General info= | =General info= | ||