Re: Cygwin/Mingw Octave Advisement.

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

> Originally I tried running Octave 3.0.2 from SourceForge, but it also
> requires higher versions of Windows (higher than 9x),  so I tried the
> Cygwin/Bash/windows approach, which you point out requires CygwinX.
!

Octave 3.0 or later requires console mode of gnuplot.
On windows version gnuplot the console mode of gnuplot is provided only on 
gnuplot 4.3 (cvs) version
which does not require the X.  

The binaries of cvs version gnuplot 4.3 (cvs) for windows are available at 
three different sites.
1. http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/development/binaries/
 Please download 'gp43-Nov21_2008-winbin.zip      23-Nov-2008 07:00  4.8M'
2. http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/text/TeX/ptex-win32/utils/
 Please download 'gnuplot-43pl0w32.zip  07-Jul-2009 22:10       8.4M'
3. http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
  Please download  gp43-winbin.zip

No.1 is built by gcc-3.4.4 on cygwin-mingw  cross complier.
No.2 is built by MSVC6++(?) 
No.3 is GCC-4.4.0 MIngw compiler.

Perhaps No.1 is rather old but the possibilities working on win98 is higher 
than No.3
No.2 is built by Microsoft complier,  I do not possibility whetherit works on 
win98 or not.

Please check gnuplort.exe works or not first.


If it does not work, you have to install cygwin X or Xming.

If it works, please edit
C:\cygwin\usr\share\octave\3.0.3\m\startup\octaverc (in case your cygwin 
installed in default folder.)
by a suitabel editor 
WIndows notepad is not recmmended because it does not work because  line feed 
code is LF.  (CRLF is
windows default but cygwin uses LF) Perhaps wordpad can be used. 

add 
gnuplot_binary('C:/Progra~1/gp43-winbin/gnuplot/binaries/gnuplot.exe');
putenv('GNUTERM','win');

in the last part of C:\cygwin\usr\share\octave\3.0.3\m\startup\octaverc

In this case gnuplot.exe is assumed to be located at C:\Program 
Files\gp43-winbin\gnuplot\binaries.
Please customize to fit your environments

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- gennarim wrote:

> 
> Dr. Tatsuro Matsuoka, Associate Professor
> Gradudate School of Engineering.
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Department of Molecular Design and Engineering
> Nagoya University, Japan
> 
> Dr. Matsuoka:
> 
> I kindly thank you for the detailed multiple solutions you offered to
> my octave/gnuplot cygwin/windows 98 problem.
> 
> Originally I tried running Octave 3.0.2 from SourceForge, but it also
> requires higher versions of Windows (higher than 9x),  so I tried the
> Cygwin/Bash/windows approach, which you point out requires CygwinX.
> 
> I am following your suggestions.
> 
> 
> Respectfully,
> mjg
> 
> 



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