Re: Octave and Windows

[Ole Jacob Hagen]

Hi, again.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Cygwin is included 
in octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe as well..

Should Octave run in Windows without Cygwin?
An answer here is very important, since it depends on how we shall make 
Oplot.
Cygwin or Native Win32 application, it already supports Linux.

Any comments?

John? Andy? Paul?

Cheers,

Ole J.

Paul Thomas wrote:

> Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Is there any plans to make Octave work in Windows without Cygwin?
> > What is the progression of this project?
>
>
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe?download 
> already has the property that you are enquiring about and more than 
> satisfies people who want nothing more than a free M****b to run under 
> Windows.  It does, however, presently lack the GNU development tools 
> and so extensibility, using mkoctfile.  The installation is brutally 
> simple and works every time.  I have not seen any performance 
> degradation running under Windows or Cygwin/Windows, relative to Linux 
> on the same machine, although I confess that I have not thrashed the 
> interface to the OS.
>
> It strikes me that a script to automatically pull the equivalent to 
> 2.1.50a out of the current release and package it up in a Windows 
> installer would be an excellent idea.   It would also be nice to have 
> development packages and the various add-on libraries bundled up as 
> well - see Paul Kinzle's wiki 
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?WindowsPackageDesign . 
>
> > Should this be something to strive for?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ole J.