Re: Octave-3.6.1 for Windows (VS2008/VS2010) available

[PhilipNienhuis]

Hi Michael,


Michael Goffioul wrote
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've uploaded binary installers for octave-3.6.1 compiled with Visual
> Studio 2008/2010. These are available from:
> 
> VS2008: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45539519/octave-3.6.1-vs2008-setup.exe
> VS2010: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45539519/octave-3.6.1-vs2010-setup.exe
> 
> To install, simply download the executable, run it and follow the
> installer instructions.
> 
> These binaries contains (most of these are optional and can be
> deselected during the installation procedure):
> - octave 3.6.1
> - all required dependencies
> - 72 packages from octave-forge
> - ATLAS 3.8.4 single-threaded and multi-threaded (2 threads)
> - QtHandles
> - experimental octave GUI (compiled from hg gui branch)
> - gnuplot 4.4.4
> 
> Note that these binaries do not contain the Visual C++ compiler. They
> also do not contain the corresponding VC++ runtime DLL. You can
> download them separately from MS download website. These are also
> installed automatically when you install the Visual C++ compiler.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> Michael.
> 

Nice job! Thank you for doing this.

I suppose you're after some testing results. OK, I tried the MSVC 2010
version (I selected "SSE3 multithreaded" on my Core Duo box).

Well, it loads instantaneous (while the MinGW version takes ~25 secs).

Some preliminary testing showed a few issues:

1. I selected all packages. None of them seems to be loaded by default.
Seems no problem, because I can do:
   pkg rebuild -auto 
or 
   pkg rebuild -auto *
But while I get the usual three "line skipped" messages I know from MinGW
versions, upon restart of Octave still no packages have been loaded.

2. Then, doing
  pkg load all
I get a long list of warning messages that I don't see on MinGW (except the
first two and last four):

octave-3.6.1.exe:2> pkg load all
warning: dispatch is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of
Octave; please use classes instead
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\miscellaneous-1.0.11\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+\waitbar.oct
shadows a core library function
warning:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\integration-1.0.7\PKG_ADD:
possible Matlab-style short-circuit operator at line 9, column 32
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\center.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\cor.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\corrcoef.mshadows
a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\cov.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\detrend.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\iqr.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\kurtosis.mshadows
a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\mean.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\meansq.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\median.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\moment.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\normcdf.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\norminv.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\normpdf.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\prctile.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\quantile.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\range.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\ranks.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\skewness.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\spearman.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\std.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\sumsq.m
shadows a built-in function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\tcdf.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\tinv.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\tpdf.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\var.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\nan-2.5.2\zscore.m
shadows a core library function
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../utl:
No such file or directory
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../asm:
No such file or directory
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../tst:
No such file or directory
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../nls:
No such file or directory
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../prs:
No such file or directory
warning: addpath:
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\lib\octave\packages\ocs-0.1.3\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+/../sbn:
No such file or directory
warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be
disabled
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be
disabled
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.1.0\fstat.m
shadows a core library function
warning: function
C:\Programs\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2010\share\octave\packages\strings-1.0.7\strtrim.m
shadows a core library function
octave-3.6.1.exe:3>

The NaN package isn't included in Nitzan's binary, but AFAICS the nan pkg
warnings actually relate to the statistics package.

3. The io package has no corresponding subdir in /lib/octave/packages (it is
also lacking in Nitzan's MinGW version, while it was there in 3.4.3). 
We used it to add the io spreadsheet jars to the javaclasspath using
PKG_ADD.

4. Do you have plans to include the java spreadsheet .jar files with your
binary package? AFAICS all of them are covered under Apache or GPL license.

5. It still portrays bug #34631. I suspect (just a hunch) that this bug is
caused by some overflow in the fontconfig section. It occurs both on gnuplot
(hang after 28th plot) and fltk (hang after the 24th plot). Perhaps it is
related to the amount of fonts installed on my box (151)?
This bug is still a nasty showstopper for me when trying to persuade my
colleagues to try Octave. I don't blame you, but 

6. Gnuplot pictures are different (incomplete; e.g., no text) compared to
fltk ones.

So far for the moment.

Thanks again,

Philip

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