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Re: Availability of GNU Octave 3.8 on Windows


From: rf
Subject: Re: Availability of GNU Octave 3.8 on Windows
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:29:54 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:12 PM, KME [via Octave] <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Philip Nienhuis wrote
>
> > Please don't top post.
> >
> > Reply BELOW the mail text.
> > rf wrote
> >> Hi Markus,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the quick reply. I had Octave 3.6 installed but I
> uninstalled
> >> it.
> >>
> >> The problem seems to be that there is another libstdc++-6.dll on my
> >> computer from Tomboy, which uses GTK#. When I try to start Octave with
> >> gui
> >> I get the following error:
> >>
> >> "The procedure entry point __gxx_personality_v0 could not be located in
> >> the
> >> dynamic link library libstdc++-6.dll"
> >>
> >> So when I add the Octave directory (C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\bin) to the
> >> beginning of the path then it seems to find the correct libstdc++-6.dll
> >> and
> >> the Octave gui works. But then Tomboy doesn't work any more because it
> >> finds the Octave libstdc++-6.dll.
> > What you can do is create a batch file to start Octave, along the lines
> > of:
> >
> > @echo off
> > set PATH=\full\path\to\Octave\bin;rest of PATH, optionally cleaned up
> > (throw Tomboy and other stuff out);
> > start octave --force-gui
> > exit
> >
> > The line "start octave --force-gui" may need to be amended (bin needs to
> > be first in the PATH); possibly the actual executable octave-gui.exe
> lives
> > somewhere in \full\path\to\octave\libexec\... (other people can tell
> where
> > exactly).
> >
> > Philip
>
> Thanks Philip!
> This helped me. Now I´m up and running!
>
> Karin
>
>
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After I got it working with the batch file as Philip suggested I discovered
what the real problem was. I had installed the program as my normal user on
Windows7 but I had to authenticate as an admin user to install and so
Octave got installed properly for the admin user. When I logged in as admin
I saw the shortcuts on the desktop and in the start menu and when I clicked
on the one with GUI it started no problem. So I copied the proper shortcuts
from there over to my normal user account and now it starts properly there
too. The proper shortcut to start the GUI version is somewhat different
than what I was using initially. I just called "octave.exe --force-gui".
The proper shortcut calls a different executable to start.

So the problem seemed to be really that the installer does not have the
option to install for all users rather than just for the user doing the
installing (which was the admin user in my case). The way it is now I have
shortcuts on my desktop that work but Octave still does not show up in my
start menu at all.

Russ

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