Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(

[Daniel Carrera]

Ok. As promised, today I went to the computer lab and I just spent an hour trying to get Octave-UPM working. Unfortunately, I failed. The culprit was the MVSC100.dll library.

Initially I just installed the main Octave-UPM package and ignored the library (I got the impression that it was "extras", rather than a requirement). After I installed Octave-UPM, Windows refused to run it, complaining about the absence of MVSC100.dll. I tried downloading it online, to no avail. I eventually realized that the libraries link on the Octave-UPM website is an executable that contains this library, so I tried it. The installer ran for a while and then it hanged. I tried other installers that I found online, including Microsoft's website. Some seemed to go the whole way and then fail, others seemed to hang halfway, some complained that I wasn't installing them as administrator, and so on.

I am hesitant to bug the system administrator to get this installed, given that I do not even know that Octave-UPM will perform acceptably under Windows.

It would be great if Octave-UPM could install on its own, without requiring me to call the systadmin. For example, Scilab seems to manage this just fine (but I also observe that Enthought Python Distribution also hanged part way through the install).

All in all, I feel exhausted, annoyed and I now remember why I gave up Windows so man years ago.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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