RE: Error compiling Octave-Windows package on Cygwin (Win10)

[Atul Shrivastava]

Thanks Marco.

I got the windows package to build and install after changing the long type to 
int (since I'm on 64-bit platform). I also built and installed the io package - 
rather than downloading from Cygwin. But now when I run load these two packages 
and run it, I see the following errors:

octave:9> dd = xlsread('Book1.xlsx',1,[], 'COM');
Checking requested interface(s):
warning: xlsopen.m: file type not supported by COM
warning: called from
    xlsopen at line 338 column 7
    xlsread at line 197 column 11
warning: xlsread: some elements in list of return values are undefined
warning: called from
    xlsread at line 224 column 1
octave:10> dd = xlsread('Book1.xlsx',1,[], 'OCT');
Checking requested interface(s):
OCT*; (* = default interface)
file Book1.xlsx couldn't be unpacked. Is it the proper file format?
warning: __OCT_spsh_open__: some elements in list of return values are undefined
warning: called from
    __OCT_spsh_open__ at line 67 column 7
    xlsopen at line 318 column 30
    xlsread at line 197 column 11
warning: xlsopen.m: file type not supported by OCT
warning: called from
    xlsopen at line 338 column 7
    xlsread at line 197 column 11
warning: xlsread: some elements in list of return values are undefined
warning: called from
    xlsread at line 224 column 1
octave:11>

Would you be able to advise how I can read/write Excel (xlsx, xlsm) data in 
Octave? I through the 'OCT' method would work.

Rgds,
Ash

-----Original Message-----
From: Octave-maintainers [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Marco Atzeri
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2017 6:42 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Error compiling Octave-Windows package on Cygwin (Win10)

On 14/05/2017 00:47, Ash46 wrote:
> Setup is Windows 10, 64-bit Cygwin, Octave 4.2.1 (installed under 
> Cygwin), gcc/g++ both version 5.4.0
>
> Seeing the following errors in __COM__.cc when installing Windows 
> package in Octave (under Cygwin):
>

>
>
> Any ideas?
>

the Windows package is NOT for Cygwin.
Cygwin build is a Unix-like one


> Thanks
>
> Ash

Marco