Re: Octave 3.8.0 Mxe build on windows 8

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:27 AM, vinukn <address@hidden> wrote:

Anyone tried new gui on windows 8. I am facing problems  like crashing fltk
plot, can not run script, workspace menus not working, can not close gui. I
have tried windows troubleshooter,but no luck

First thing, make sure to use the command-line flags "-i --line-editing" when running octave under Win8. There's a pending gnulib bug about proper console/terminal detection, which makes octave run in batch mode (any error will exit octave immediately).

Michael.