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installer: Add ref BLAS/OpenBLAS install option * Makefile.in: Add rule for ALL blas libraries * binary-dist-rules.mk: add blas packages to installed dependancies and copy libblas to refblas. * makeinst-script.sh: Add dropdown list to options page to select BLAS and set selected to libblas.dll. * installer-files/README.html: Add information on the BLAS libs.
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3 <title>GNU Octave</title>
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12 <h2>Welcome</h2>
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14 Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
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17 Octave 3.8 is a major new release with many new features, including an
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18 experimental graphical user interface. But because the GUI is not
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19 quite as polished as we would like, we have decided to wait until the
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20 4.0.x release series before making the GUI the default interface.
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23 See the release notes or the "Experimental GUI Info" button in the GUI
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24 for more information about the release and how you can help us with
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25 GUI development and speed up the 4.0 release.
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27 <h2>BLAS Library selection</h2>
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29 During the install, a BLAS library was selected. The installer contains 2 BLAS implementations,
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30 the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> and
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31 <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>.
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34 Either can be selected after the install by copying librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll
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35 to libblas.dll in the bin folder of the Octave installation.
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37 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
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39 A number of Octave-forge packages have been included with this install Octave,
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40 however they need to be installed in order to use them.
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43 To install:
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44 <ul>
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45 <li>Start Octave and then open the build_packages.m file found in the src folder
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46 where Octave was installed.</li>
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47 <li>Run the build_packages.m script to build and install the packages.</li>
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49 Packages must then be loaded in order to use them with the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.
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52 Other packages are available from <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>
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