Fw: Octave for windows on USB stick?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Alasdair McAndrew 
To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
Date: 2015/3/27, Fri 17:06
Subject: Re: Octave for windows on USB stick?

Many thanks - that sounds good.  I'll see what I can do about getting an Octave executable sorted out and then see how it goes!

cheers, and thanks again,

Alasdair

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
>From: Alasdair McAndrew 
>To: help 
>Date: 2015/3/27, Fri 15:17
>Subject: Octave for windows on USB stick?
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>Hello,
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>I was wondering about the possibility of installing an octave executable on a USB stick so that I could use it on any computer (running Windows!).  It would seem to be possible, if maybe a little involved: using cygwin or some other library.
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>Can I download a stand-alone windows binary (that includes all the needed libraries) and copy the octave.exe file to my USB drive - or is it more complicated?
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>Many thanks,
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>Alasdair
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Octave itself is relocatable. Therefore just copy all installed files with keeping folder structure to the USB memory.  However, octave-forge packages uses absolute path so that that they are not used as they are.

>> pkg rebuild all 

is required from octave prompt to re-usable octave-forge packages each time you insert the USB to PC.

Regards

Tatsuro 

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