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The best (and recommended) way to use Octave on Windows is to use the provided installers (see above). But for some special requirements, the version of Octave packaged by MSYS2 might be the better solution. Those special requirements might include: | The best (and recommended) way to use Octave on Windows is to use the provided installers (see above). But for some special requirements, the version of Octave packaged by MSYS2 might be the better solution. Those special requirements might include: | ||
* Users might want to use e.g. Octave packages that depend on third party packages not included in MXE Octave. | * Users might want to use e.g. Octave packages that depend on third party packages not included in MXE Octave (e.g., the Pythonic package that depends on a native Windows Python installation). | ||
* Users might need features of newer versions of packages | * Users might need features of newer versions of packages than which are included in MXE Octave. | ||
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*'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri | *'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri | ||
*'''Latest release:''' | *'''Latest release:''' 2024-01-66 | ||
*Latest packages: | *Latest packages: | ||
:octave- | :octave-8.4.0-1 | ||
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https:// | :Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2024-January/011503.html] | ||
:Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package. | :Most of the Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package. | ||
: Full cygwin package list is available here [https://cygwin.com/packages/] | : Full cygwin package list is available here [https://cygwin.com/packages/] | ||
: At | : At 2024-01-26, 51 forge packages were available. | ||
*To install : | *To install : | ||
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* 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-8.4.0-1-src.tar.xz | ||
cygport octave.cygport almostall | cygport octave.cygport almostall | ||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight> | ||