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Re: Any success building 2.9.7 under cygwin
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Bob Weigel |
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Re: Any success building 2.9.7 under cygwin |
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Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:38:54 -0400 |
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> 1. run octave from a USB flash drive that can be taken from machine to
> machine, and
> 2. does not interfere with a currently installed version of cygwin
>
> ( I know "mount" has some bearing here, but I'm not quite sure how)
It is only possible to do this with "registry interference". I wrote a script
to automate it but cannot locate it. Unmounting/mounting involves modifying
the registry. The scripts used in
http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
may help. I recall that the cygwin mailing list archive has instructions for
switching between root directories of cygwin and that to automate it I added
a few dos commands that killed all existing cygwin processes (by pattern
matching, I think). So you can see why this is not recommended for general
use.
Note that I was doing this because I had a current cygwin install (gcc 3.4+)
and wanted to compile Octave (can't use gcc 3.4 last I tried). I too wanted
to do something along the lines of what you describe. Eventually I decided
that a better way to go would be to install Octave on a small linux distro
(or strip down a large distro with good Octave support such as Fedora) and
then modify it to run as a virtual machine and carry the virtual image on a
usb disk. This still requires the user to have VMWare player installed,
however.
Bob
Re: Any success building 2.9.7 under cygwin, Joe Koski, 2006/08/23
Re: Any success building 2.9.7 under cygwin, Benjamin Lindner, 2006/08/24