Octave on cygwin

[A Hodel]

One of my students is attempting to install and run octave on the 
cygwin environment, which I do not have.  If anyone can make a 
recommendation on how to proceed, I'd be grateful for the help.

He is getting the error message:

The error reads: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be 
located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll.

I’ve downloaded gp400win32.zip and unzipped it to c:\Octave\gp400win32. 
 I didn’t see any .exe files in the bin folder though.  I also changed 
the octaverc file by adding the commands listed on the octave install 
link “the hard way”.


A Scottedward Hodel, PhD, Associate Professor
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5201
(334) 844-1854  Fax: (34) 844-1809
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas



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