Installing packages in Octave 3.8?

[Arnaud Miege]

Hi,

I have just installed Octave 3.8 on my Windows 7 machine from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/. It appears as if no packages are installed with Octave and I haven't found a way to download/install all packages at once, so I am doing them one at a time using pkg install -forge <package_name>. It's quite tedious and I have to work through all the dependencies by hand. Is there an easier way?

Also, when trying to install parallel, which is required for optim, I got the following error message:

>> pkg install -forge parallel

sclose.cc:37:24: fatal error: sys/socket.h: No such file or directory

 #include <sys/socket.h>

                        ^

compilation terminated.

sock-stream.cc: In function 'void handle_errno(std::string, int)':

sock-stream.cc:56:10: error: 'ELOOP' was not declared in this scope

     case ELOOP:

          ^

sock-stream.cc:89:10: error: 'ETXTBSY' was not declared in this scope

     case ETXTBSY:

          ^

g++: error: sclose.o: No such file or directory

g++: error: sock-stream.o: No such file or directory

strip: 'sclose.oct': No such file

make: *** [sclose.oct] Error 1

make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-11/parallel-2.1.1/src'

C:/Octave/Octave-3.8.0/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.0.exe -s sclose.cc sock-stream.cc

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-11/parallel-2.1.1/src'

pkg: error running `make' for the parallel package.

error: called from 'configure_make' in file C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.8.0\m\pkg\private\configure

_make.m near line 82, column 9

error: called from:

error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.8.0\m\pkg\private\install.m at line 199, column 5

error:   C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.8.0\m\pkg\pkg.m at line 394, column 9

Any suggestions on how to work round this?

Thanks,

Arnaud