Re: problems installing pkg general on Windows 7

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Sun, 2014/5/11, dr g  wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello Octave Help,
> 
> I would like to resolve a problem I have been having with installing packages 
> to Octave 3.8 under windows. I need signal package but have to get 'general' 
> working for the dependency. Packages worked on 3.64 for me, now they don't. I 
> believe the directions for Windows users which I have seen online suggest 
> using the build_packages.m script which I have tried to use both unmodified 
> and modified as below.
> 
> The orginal code 
> [packagedir] = fileparts(mfilename("fullpathext"))
> if length(packagedir) > 0
> endif 
> 
> kicked me out with a zero length path.
> Commenting out this part of the script
>  and  adding
>  cd('C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\src');
> pkg install general-1.3.4.tar.gz -verbose
> 
> 
> Gives an error long message below. 
> (# pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz -verbose  also fails.)From the web, I see 
> on the web that there was some sort of a bug fix/update for general-1.3.4.
> Was this not resolved?
> What else does it take to get this working on Windows? 
> 
> any ideas???
> david
> 

At C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\src you can install packages easily using 
build_packages.m script.

Try just
>> cd C:\octave\Octave-3.8.1\src
>> build_packages

My results are
octave:1> pkg list
Package Name         | Version | Installation directory
---------------------+---------+-----------------------
          actuarial *|   1.1.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\actuarial-1.1.0
     communications  |   1.2.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\communications-1.2.0
            control *|   2.6.2 | ...\share\octave\packages\control-2.6.2
     data-smoothing  |   1.3.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\data-smoothing-1.3.0
              dicom *|   0.1.1 | ...\share\octave\packages\dicom-0.1.1
               fits  |   1.0.3 | ...\share\octave\packages\fits-1.0.3
            fl-core *|   1.0.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\fl-core-1.0.0
fuzzy-logic-toolkit  |   0.4.2 | ...\octave\packages\fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.2
            general  |   1.3.4 | ...\share\octave\packages\general-1.3.4
           geometry  |   1.7.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\geometry-1.7.0
              image  |   2.2.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\image-2.2.0
                 io  |   2.0.2 | ...\share\octave\packages\io-2.0.2
     linear-algebra  |   2.2.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\linear-algebra-2.2.0
      miscellaneous  |   1.2.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\miscellaneous-1.2.0
             netcdf  |   1.0.2 | ...\share\octave\packages\netcdf-1.0.2
             odepkg *|   0.8.4 | ...\share\octave\packages\odepkg-0.8.4
              optim  |   1.2.2 | ...\share\octave\packages\optim-1.2.2
         quaternion *|   2.2.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\quaternion-2.2.0
             signal  |   1.3.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\signal-1.3.0
            sockets  |   1.0.8 | ...\share\octave\packages\sockets-1.0.8
            specfun  |   1.1.0 | ...\share\octave\packages\specfun-1.1.0
         statistics  |   1.2.3 | ...\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.2.3
             struct  |  1.0.10 | ...\share\octave\packages\struct-1.0.10
                tsa  |   4.2.7 | ...\share\octave\packages\tsa-4.2.7
            windows  |   1.2.1 | ...\share\octave\packages\windows-1.2.1
             zenity  |   0.5.7 | ...\share\octave\packages\zenity-0.5.7


# Note that after execution of build_packages I executed "pkg rebuild odepkg 
-auto" for 
the odepkg package being autoloaded.

If you want deleted (an) unnecessary package(s), use pkg uninstall command.

Hope this helps.

Tatsuro                                                                         
                                                    
> >>   cd('C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\src');
> >> pkg install general-1.3.4.tar.gz -verbose
> mkdir (C:\Users\home\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-22)
> untar (general-1.3.4.tar.gz, C:\Users\home\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-22)
> make: Entering directory `C:/Users/home/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-22/general/src'
> C:/Octave/Octave-3.8.1/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1.exe unpackfields.cc
> C:/Users/home/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/dllcrt2.o:crtdll.c:(.text+0x8f): 
> undefined reference to `NtCurrentTeb'
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [unpackfields.oct] Error 1
> make: Leaving directory `C:/Users/home/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-22/general/src'
> pkg: error running `make' for the general package.
> error: called from 'configure_make' in file 
> C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\private\configure_make.m near 
> lin
> e 82, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\private\install.m at 
> line 199, column 5
> error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.1\share\octave\3.8.1\m\pkg\pkg.m at line 394, 
> column 9
> >>
> 
> 
>