Re: More on Octave 2.1.36 for Windows

[Andy Adler]

Agustin,

Could you post the instructions that you are using to build a NSIS based
octave-windows installer?

Some other brief questions:
1. Are the octave-forge extensions included with your package?
2. Do you include ATLAS optimizations?

Thanks

andy

Agustin Barto wrote:

> I've been collecting the your responses to my "cry for help". The most common 
> requests were:
>
> 1) To be able to choose the installation directory.
> 2) To change the icon.
> 3) Keep an eye con some problems with gnuplot for win32.
>
> This is what I am right now:
>
> 1) Nsis can handle the selection of the directory and the modiciation of the 
> registry according to the user request. Cygwin has no problem with spaces on 
> the directory's name (in my case: "C:\Program Files\GNU Octave 2.1.36\" and 
> "C:\Archivos de Programa\GNU Octave 2.1.36"). The problem is that Octave 
> thinks that there are escape characters on that string so I can't use nsis to 
> generate the correct octaverc. My options are
> * Make a program to translate the paths and generate all the directory 
> dependant files. (Peace of cake. I can do this in a couple of minutes and 
> call it from within the nsis installer).
> * To use another installer generator. It'll have to be able to translate the 
> \s to /s.
>
> 2) I did a couple of prototypes with the Gimp last night. I still have to 
> scale them and reduce the palette. Any contributions on this matter 
> are welcome.
>
> 3) Some people told me that they had problems with the win32 version of 
> gnuplot. I tried to recreate the situations and the problems didn't appear. 
> Just in case I'll try to recompile gnuplot (the cygwin and the win32 
> versions).
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll send a new message as soon as I have this lil 
> problems solved.
>
>
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