Octave for Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

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==Octave on Cygwin==
==Octave on Cygwin==
=== Octave 3.8.2 on cygwin===
=== Octave 4.0.0 on cygwin===


*'''Web-Site:''' http://cygwin.com  
*'''Web-Site:''' http://cygwin.com  
*'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri  
*'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri  
*'''Latest release:''' 2014-08-17
*'''Latest release:''' 2015-06-21


*Latest packages:
*Latest packages:


:octave-3.8.2-1
:octave-4.0.0-1
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-08/msg00033.html]
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-06/]


:octave-forge is not anymore monolithic but splitted in the several package
:octave-forge packages have each  a cygwin package
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html]
:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-06/]
: Full cygwin package ist is available here[https://cygwin.com/packages/]
: Full cygwin package list is available here[https://cygwin.com/packages/]
: At today 2014-08-17, 53 forge packages are available.  
: At today 2015-06-21, 57 forge packages are available.  


*To install :  
*To install :  
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:passes almost all the tests.  
:passes almost all the tests.  
:Only, and not substantial, failures are:
:Only, and not substantial, failures are:
     <nowiki>/pub/hg/octave/src/data.cc : 8 failures due to different handling of complex Inf on sort
     <nowiki>
    /pub/hg/octave/src/data.cc : 8 failures due to different handling of complex Inf on sort
     /pub/hg/octave/src/syscalls.cc: 1 failure on fork. This disappears when octave is installed
     /pub/hg/octave/src/syscalls.cc: 1 failure on fork. This disappears when octave is installed
     /pub/hg/octave/scripts/sparse/svds.m: 1 failure due to test sensitivity on starting point. See  
     /pub/hg/octave/scripts/sparse/svds.m: 1 failure due to test sensitivity on starting point. See  
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*To build from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries
*To build from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries
     <nowiki>$ tar -xvjf octave-3.8.2-1-src.tar.bz2  
     <nowiki>
    $ tar -xvjf octave-4.0.0-1-src.tar.bz2  
     $ cygport octave.cygport almostall</nowiki>
     $ cygport octave.cygport almostall</nowiki>


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