Re: Windows-1-1.0.tar.gz

[marco atzeri]

On 5/24/2012 12:13 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Rtupper wrote
> > I'm running GNU Octave, version 3.6.1 on Cygwin on Windows 7 and need to
> > be able to use the xlsread function.  As such, I've installed io-1.0.18,
> > but when attempting to install the windows-1.1.0 package, I get some
> > errors:
> > Makefile:27: recipe for target `__COM__.oct' failed
> > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-28a03c.2/Windows/src'
> > error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> > /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> > error: called from:
> > error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> > error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> >
> > As a result, the xlsread does not yet function.
> > Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> I'm not familiar (anymore) with Octave on cygwin. But perhaps you can get
> the Java package to work. If so, you can use the Java-based spreadsheet
> interfaces.
>
> Alternatively, you can install Octave for MinGW or MSVC. Both have the
> windows package available (pre-compiled).
>
> Philip

No java for cygwin, sorry, at least for this usage;
and "windows" package is not cygwin compatible.

Best solution is to convert xls file in cvs or other text format and
load data from them.

Marco