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1 Octave has been ported to Windows NT and Windows 95 using the gnu-win32 |
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2 tools from Cygnus Support. If you would like to volunteer to work on |
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3 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 19 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 * You will need to have f2c and libf2c.a or g77 installed. I would |
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17 recommend using g77. Mumit Khan has directions for building g77 at |
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18 http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/g77.html. |
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19 Another solution is to use egcs, which includes g77. The egcs |
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20 compiler is available from http://www.cygnus.com/egcs. |
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22 * You will also need a termcap library. The GNU termcap library seems |
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23 to work. You can get it from any GNU archive site, including |
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24 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/termcap-1.3.tar.gz. |
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25 |
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26 * It is possible to cross-compile Octave for Windows NT/95 systems. |
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27 On the same hardware, it's generally much faster to use gcc as a |
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28 cross compiler under Linux than as a native compiler under Windows. |
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30 Here are some instructions for building a cross version of gcc and |
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31 then using it to compile Octave. I've done this using a Linux |
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32 system as the host, but it should work equally well on other systems |
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33 that can run gcc). |
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34 |
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35 + install cdk on your Windows system |
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36 |
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37 + build a cross version of binutils: |
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39 tar zxf binutils-2.9.tar.gz |
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40 cd binutils-2.9 |
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41 ./configure --target=i386-pc-cygwin32 --prefix=/usr/local/cross-gcc |
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42 make |
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43 make install |
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45 (You can choose whatever value for prefix that you prefer, of |
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46 course, just remember to also make the corresponding changes in the |
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47 following steps as well.) |
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48 |
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49 + copy libraries and include files from cdk. You'll need the |
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50 library files from the following directory trees: |
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52 b19/H-i386-pc-cygwin32/lib |
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53 b19/H-i386-pc-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/lib |
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55 Copy them to /usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/lib. |
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57 You'll also need the include files from the following directory |
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58 trees: |
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60 b19/include |
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61 b19/H-i386-pc-cygwin32/include |
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63 Copy them to /usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/include. |
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64 |
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65 + build cross version of egcs: |
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67 tar zxf egcs-1.0.2.tar.gz |
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68 cd egcs-1.0.2 |
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69 export PATH=/usr/local/cross-gcc/bin:$PATH |
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70 ./configure --target=i386-pc-cygwin32 --prefix=/usr/local/cross-gcc |
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71 make |
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72 make install |
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73 |
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74 + cross-compile libtermcap: |
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76 export PATH=/usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/bin:$PATH |
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77 tar zxf termcap-1.3.tar.gz |
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78 cd termcap-1.3 |
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79 ./configure --host=i386-pc-cygwin3 |
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80 make |
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81 cp termcap.h /usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/include |
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82 cp libtermcap.a /usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/lib |
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83 |
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84 + cross-compile Octave using the compiler you just built: |
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86 export PATH=/usr/local/cross-gcc/i386-pc-cygwin32/bin:$PATH |
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87 tar zxf octave-2.0.12.tar.gz |
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88 cd octave-2.0.10 |
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89 ./configure --host=i386-pc-cygwin3 |
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90 make |
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91 |
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92 + make a binary distribution to copy to your Windows system: |
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94 make -f octMakefile binary-dist |
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96 + copy the binary distribution to your Windows system and install |
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97 using the intall-octave shell script |
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98 |
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99 * Octave requires gnuplot for plotting, but the normal Windows version |
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100 of gnuplot will not work because it only reads from the GUI and refuses |
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101 to read input from stdin. Mumit Khan has written a patch that fixes |
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102 the problem, but the gnuplot license does not allow us to distribute |
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103 modified versions of gnuplot in binary form. The patch is available |
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104 from http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32. |
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106 * If Octave takes a long time to find function files, you may have to |
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107 modify your LOADPATH to avoid device names specified using the |
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109 /D_DRIVE, do the following: |
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111 cd / |
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112 mkdir /D_DRIVE |
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113 mount d: /D_DRIVE |
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115 Then you can set your LOADPATH to include /D_DRIVE/subdir instead of |
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116 //d/subdir. |
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118 If you know of solutions for any of the problems mentioned above, |
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119 please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu. |
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121 More information about the gnu-win32 project is available via the WWW |
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122 at http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32. |
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124 John W. Eaton |
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125 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu |
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126 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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127 Department of Chemical Engineering |
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129 Thu Apr 16 23:39:13 1998 |
