Re: Octave-3.6.0 testing binary built on MinGW

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> Hi Tatsuro:
> 
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> I have built the octave-3.6.0 and archived the installed directory trees.
>> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/
>> 
>> Please see Readme_octave-3.6.0.txt for details.
>> 
>> Note that this release is prepared for the testing purpose for experienced 
>> users.
> 
> (shouldn't follow-up be directed to address@hidden, rather than 
> address@hidden)
> 
> In a spare hour I've made a preliminary "win32 distribution" using the steps 
> outlined in the attached text, based on your build environment. In hindsight 
> I already spotted some room for improvement in this procedure, but anyway 
> this works too.
> Maybe we can add this text to the wiki later on.
> 
> Having done those steps, I'm able to install at least the java & io packages 
> (using -forge option). They work OK AFAICS.
> 
> Installing the linear-algebra package doesn't work yet, due to a problem with 
> gsvd.oct ("dggsvd_" and "zggsvd_ not found").
> I had the same issues with 3.4.2; but Nitzan seemed to do better there.
> 
> Anyway, I think your testing binary works good.
> 
> (And this week I'll try to prepare a new io pkg (bug fix release)
> 
> Philip

Philip,

I've been wanting some practice with the wiki, and started working on it a few 
days ago.

I hope you don't mind that I jumped in and created wiki page and populated it 
with your notes.

        http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Win32_Distribution

Ben