Post by David BatemanPost by leggOn Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:58:03 -0700 (PDT), david bateman
Post by david batemanPost by leggCan someone tell me if it's still possible to install Octave in a W2K
OS? Current releases seem to depend on MSVC revisions that will only
install in WXP.
I tried an old GNU Octave v2.1.5Oa self-installer, that seemed to
object to the presence of Cygwin. MSVC was ancient (v1.5), so that
even MSVCCDK, expecting v2.02 tools, repeatedly choked in set-up.
RL
Why won't it install on W2K? The only thing I can think of is that
there is a missing DLL you might need to install. Look at the page
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
and
http://www.geocities.jp/tmoctwin/
for all the options you have to install a recent version of Octave.
That's what I figured.
The twist is that the MSVC offering currently available from Microsoft
is WXP or later, with no options to use earlier releases. I suppose I
should have kept mine up to date, and saved the different installer
revs.
RL
All versions of the installer are available for octave on windows..
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078
I found the MSVC upgrades that were neglected - V4, V4.5 and V5 which,
as I recall, all showed up in a fairly short time period one hot
summer ... ... suggesting, at the time, that maybe another rev was
imminent ( so why bother?).
Any ways, I seem to be getting fair responses from the octave command
prompt. Had to manually relocate some MSVC dlls.
If I can only figure out, now, which bin the MatLab program should be
located in for recognition (it doesn't like simple directory
structures, it seems), there might be smoke.
RL