Octave for Windows...once again.

[Agustin Barto]

After exploring several live-cd based solutions to my 
Lack-of-Octave-for-Windows (R) problem, I decided to solved the problem, 
once again, but with a different approach. The last time I tried to 
compile everything myself and I had both success and failures due to 
bugs on gcc, octave, octave-forge, and/or its dependencies. This time I 
trusted the cygwin octave and octave-forge packages and installed 
everything from the setup utility. Of course, everything worked just 
fine, so I decided to repackage O-f-W using NSIS and the octave-forge's 
NSIS script. The only thing I wasn't too happy about was the size of the 
final package, so I removed cygwin's gnuplot and replaced it with the 
native version, which allowed me to remove X11 (among other things).

Bottom line? I (and the students) got a fully working cygwin enviroment 
WITH octave 2.1.72 and octave-forge on a 44Mb NSIS package.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Let me know (privately) if you're interested in the package, or in the 
building process.

Agustin

PS: There was a minor issue related to the octave.exe -> 
octave-2.1.72.exe symlink (which somehow gets broken during the NSIS 
package build), but I solved it modifying the start_octave.sh script to 
reference octave-2.1.72.exe directly.
PS2: I also changed the icon. The old one was really ugly. :)



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