Re: Octave and Windows

[pkienzle]

I got most of the way a couple of years ago.  Octave is pretty well isolated
from the environment.  Readline isn't available, but you probably don't care
since you are going to have your own read-eval-print loop.

I have no plans to work on this in the near future.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden


> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>