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Add blas chooser
* src/blas_switch.mk: new file
* binary-dist-rules.mk: add blas_switch as a windows dep
* index.html, dist-files.mk: add ref to blas_switch
* tools/makeinst-script.sh.in: add start menu blas switch menu
* installer-files/README.html: add not about blas_switch
author | John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org> |
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date | Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:29:17 -0400 |
parents | 53f64b3459e1 |
children | 5b5a3b078ee4 |
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<html> <head> <title>GNU Octave</title> <style TYPE="text/css"> <!-- body { } li { margin-bottom: 1.5em } --> </style> </head> <body> <h2>Welcome</h2> <p> Thank you for installing GNU Octave! </p> <p> Octave 5.2 is a minor release mainly focused on fixing bugs found in Octave 5.1. </p> <p> A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News menu. </p> <h2>BLAS Library Selection</h2> <p> During the installation a default BLAS library was selected. The installer contains two BLAS implementations, the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> and <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>. </p> <p> The choice of library may be changed after installation by copying either librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll to the file libblas.dll in the bin folder of the Octave installation, or running blas_switch from the same folder. </p> <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2> <p> A number of Octave-Forge packages have been included with Octave, however they must be loaded in order to use them. </p> <p> <ul> <li>To list the available installed packages, use the <tt>pkg list</tt> command.</li> <li>To load a package in order to use its functions, use the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.</li> </ul> </p> <p> Other packages are available from <a href="https://octave.sourceforge.io/">Octave-Forge</a>. </p> <h2>Issues</h2> Please report any problems with Octave on the <a href="https://octave.org/bugs.html">Octave website</a>. </body> </html>