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1 Octave has been ported to Windows NT and Windows 95 using the beta 18 |
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2 release of the Cygnus gnu-win32 tools. If you would like to volunteer |
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3 to work on improving this port, please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu. |
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5 The directory ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32 |
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6 contains a binary distribution of Octave for Windows NT/95 along with |
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7 installation instructions. Unless you are interested in doing some |
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8 hacking, you should use the binary releases. |
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10 Here is a list of current problems (and workarounds, where available). |
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12 * To compile and install Octave on a Windows NT/95 system, |
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13 you will need to get the beta 18 release of the gnu-win32 tools. |
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14 They are available from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32. |
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16 * There is a conflict between /gnu-win32/b18/include/g++/String.h |
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17 and /gnu-win32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/include/string.h. |
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18 You should rename or remove /gnu-win32/b18/include/g++/String.h. |
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19 (These file names assume that you have installed the gnu-win32 tools |
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20 in /gnu-win32/b18). |
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22 * You will need to have f2c and libf2c.a or g77 installed. I would |
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23 recommend using g77. Mumit Khan has directions for building g77 at |
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24 http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/g77.html. |
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25 Another solution is to use egcs, which includes g77. The egcs |
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26 compiler is available from http://www.cygnus.com/egcs. |
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28 * You will also need a termcap library. The GNU termcap library seems |
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29 to work. You can get it from any GNU archive site, including |
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30 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/termcap-1.3.tar.gz. |
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32 * Octave requires gnuplot for plotting, but the normal Windows version |
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33 of gnuplot will not work because it only reads from the GUI and refuses |
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34 to read input from stdin. Mumit Khan has written a patch that fixes |
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35 the problem, but the gnuplot license does not allow us to distribute |
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36 modified versions of gnuplot in binary form. The patch is available |
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37 from http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32. |
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39 * If Octave takes a long time to find function files, you may have to |
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40 modify your LOADPATH to avoid device names specified using the |
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41 `//DEV/subdir' syntax. To map the D: drive (for example) to |
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42 /D_DRIVE, do the following: |
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44 cd / |
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45 mkdir /D_DRIVE |
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46 mount d: /D_DRIVE |
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48 Then you can set your LOADPATH to include /D_DRIVE/subdir instead of |
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49 //d/subdir. |
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51 If you know of solutions for any of the problems mentioned above, |
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52 please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu. |
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54 More information about the gnu-win32 project is available via the WWW |
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55 at http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32. |
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57 John W. Eaton |
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58 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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59 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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60 Department of Chemical Engineering |
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