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The easiest way to install GNU Octave on Microsoft Windows is using [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/ MXE] builds. For the current 4.0.x release installers can be found [https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/ here].
The easiest way to install GNU Octave on Microsoft Windows is using [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/ MXE] builds. For the current 4.0.x release installers can be found [https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/ here].


If you got any problems while running Windows 8 or libstdc++-6.dll errors, try this octave-gui.bat file and place it into your Octave folder (e.g. `C:/octave-4.0/`).
Pre-build octave-forge packages are not prepared from octave-3.8 for windows. You can install some octave-forge packages installed. However, small flaws exist in current octave-4.0.0_0 distribution. Before install, correct version number of general and signal packages version to 2.0.0 and 1.3.2 in C:\octave\octave-4.0.0\src\build_packages.m", respectively and comment out install io package as"#try_install io-2.2.7.tar.gz" and then excute


     @echo off
     >> cd C:\octave\octave-4.0.0\src
     set PATH=%CD%\bin\
     >> build_packages
     start octave --force-gui -i --line-editing
     >> pkg install -forge io
    exit
 
See [[Windows_Installer]] for building instructions.
 
=Older instructions=


The plot command also doesn't work well in case of Windows 8 system.
==MinGW ports==


===Octave-3.8.2 ===
The site that provide previous version of octave for windows of ver. 3.8.2 (unofficial build) is closed.
The site that provide previous version of octave for windows of ver. 3.8.2 (unofficial build) is closed.
A mirrored binary can be downloaded at [http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/ File list of Octave for Windows]   
A mirrored binary can be downloaded at [http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/ File list of Octave for Windows]   


See [[Windows_Installer]] for building instructions.
If you got any problems while running Windows 8 or libstdc++-6.dll errors, try this octave-gui.bat file and place it into your Octave folder (e.g. `C:/octave/octave-3.8.2`).


=Older instructions=
    @echo off
    set PATH=%CD%\bin\
    start octave --force-gui -i --line-editing
    exit


==MinGW ports==
The plot command also doesn't work well in case of Windows 8 system.


For build instructions see [[Octave_for_MinGW]] or the Octave-Forge repository [http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/].
For build instructions before octave-3.8 see [[Octave_for_MinGW]] or the Octave-Forge repository [http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/].


===Octave-3.6.4-mingw + octaveforge pkgs===
===Octave-3.6.4-mingw + octaveforge pkgs===
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