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1 *** PLEASE NOTE: This information is mostly out of date. It would be |
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2 *** useful for someone who uses Octave on Windows to take over |
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3 *** mainenance of this and other files related to running Octave on |
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4 *** Windows systems. |
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7 Instructions for installing Octave on Windows NT/95 systems using the |
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8 beta 18 release of the gnu-win32 tools from Cygnus Support. |
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9 |
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10 1. Install the Cygnus gnu-win32 tools. You only need the user tools, |
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11 but you can install the full development kit instead (either will |
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12 work -- the development kit contains all the user tools plus the |
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13 GNU compilers and other development tools that are not needed to |
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14 just run Octave). The gnu-win32 tools are available from |
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15 ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest, and also from |
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16 ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32. |
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17 |
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18 -- Download usertools.exe or cdk.exe. |
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19 |
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20 -- Install the tools by running the file usertools.exe (or |
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21 cdk.exe) and following the directions. The default install |
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22 location is /gnuwin32/b18 (the rest of the examples in this |
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23 document assume that you've used the default location). |
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24 |
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25 -- Create a /bin directory and put a copy of sh.exe there. You |
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26 can find the sh.exe file in /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin. |
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27 |
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28 -- Create a /tmp directory. |
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29 |
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30 -- Add |
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31 |
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32 C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin |
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33 |
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34 to your $PATH. |
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35 |
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36 -- Create a /etc directory and put a copy of the termcap file |
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37 there. You can find a suitable termcap file in the directory |
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38 /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/etc. |
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39 |
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40 -- There is a bug in the main gnu-win32 dll that will cause |
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41 Octave to fail. You need to fix it by either editing the file |
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42 (using an editor like Emacs that can handle binary files) or |
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43 by replacing it with the file cygwin-setpwent-fixed.dll from |
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44 ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32. |
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46 To fix the problem by editing the file, open the file |
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47 /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll and replace the |
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48 string setpwend with setpwent. This change needs to be made |
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49 in three places in the same file. Next, copy the fixed file to |
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50 /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/lib/cygwin.dll. |
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52 To fix the problem by replacing the file with a version that's |
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53 already been fixed, download the file cygwin-setpwent-fixed.dll |
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54 from ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32 and |
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55 copy it to /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll and |
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56 /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/lib/cygwin.dll. |
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57 |
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58 2. Install less for gnuwin32. A copy is available from |
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59 ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32 |
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60 |
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61 -- Download the file less-gnu-win32.tar.gz. |
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62 |
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63 -- Install it along with the gnu-win32 tools. Change your |
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64 directory to /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin and untar the |
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65 less-gnu-win32.tar.gz file (bash syntax): |
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67 tar zxf /path/to/less-gnu-win32.tar.gz |
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68 |
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69 -- Set the environment variable TERM to linux. |
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70 |
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71 3. Install Octave. |
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72 |
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73 -- Download the file octave-2.0.10-i386-pc-cygwin32.tar.gz from |
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74 ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32. |
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75 |
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76 -- Untar the distribution: |
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77 |
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78 tar zxf octave-2.0.10-i386-pc-cygwin32.tar.gz |
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79 |
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80 The files will be unpacked into a subdirectory called |
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81 octave-2.0.10-i386-pc-cygwin32. |
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82 |
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83 -- Change your directory to octave-2.0.10-i386-pc-cygwin32 and |
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84 install the files using the command ./install-octave (running |
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85 bash). |
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86 |
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87 -- The default installation directory is /octave. If you choose |
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88 a different installation directory, you will have to set the |
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89 environment variable OCTAVE_HOME to the name of that directory |
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90 (using Unix file name syntax) in order for Octave to work. |
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91 |
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92 -- Add C:\octave\bin to your path. |
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93 |
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94 -- Set the environment variable TERM to linux. |
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95 |
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96 -- Optionally set the environment variables HOME (for your home |
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97 direoctory using Unix file name syntax) and USER (for your user |
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98 name). |
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99 |
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100 Note that Octave requires gnuplot for plotting, but the normal Windows |
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101 version of gnuplot will not work because it only reads from the GUI |
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102 and refuses to read input from stdin. Mumit Khan has written a patch |
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103 that fixes the problem, but the gnuplot license does not allow us to |
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104 distribute modified versions of gnuplot in binary form. The patch is |
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105 available from http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32. |
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107 Eventually, I hope to automate most of this process and make it much |
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108 simpler. Please contact me if you are interested in helping out with |
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109 this task. |
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110 |
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111 Thanks, |
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113 John W. Eaton |
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114 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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115 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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116 Department of Chemical Engineering |
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118 Fri Feb 13 19:24:01 1998 |
