From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Aug  2 01:42:29 2001
Subject: Re: NT, Octave and Cygwin
From: Tom Weichmann <tomcw at localnet dot com>
To: adler at freenet dot carleton dot ca, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Cc: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:41:26 -0400

Hello,

There is a better way to get wgnuplot and cygwin to both know where the /tmp 
directory is.  In octaverc use this line:

putenv('TMPDIR','X://cygwin//tmp')

where X://cygwin//tmp is your path to the cygwin /tmp directory

This way you do not have to mess around with mount.


On Wednesday, August 01, 2001 08:41 pm, adler at freenet dot carleton dot ca wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Mumit Khan wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Craig Stoudt wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to get the windows port of octave
> > > (2.1.31) and the cygwin package to peacefully coexist
> > > under Windows NT4.0?
> >
> > One sure way is to get the Octave sources and build it yourself.
> > It should build out of the box, and if not, please report any
> > problems you may run into.
>
> This works fine for building octave (although I've noticed
> with cygwin on pentium 4's, configure doesn't get the
> host correctly, so you have to do
> ./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-cygwin )
>
> However, there is a trick for gnuplot.
>
> 1. Get win32 gnuplot from www.gnuplot.org. Install it
> at Drive:/path/to/wgnuplot.exe
>
> 2. Get pipe-gnuplot.exe, put it in you PATH
>
> 3. In octave, set
> gnuplot_binary="pipe-gnuplot.exe Drive:/path/to/wgnuplot.exe"
>
> 4. from cygwin,
> mount Drive:/tmp /tmp
>
> This last step is important, so that octave and gnuplot can
> co-operate about where the temprorary files are stored, since
> octave uses cygwin directory naming, and gnuplot uses
> win32 naming.
>
> Additionally, if you want image() to work, you need to
> edit image.m to add the image viewer of your choice
>
> For example, change the line
>   xv = sprintf ("xv -expand %f %s", zoom, ppm_name);
> to
>   xv = sprintf ("i_view32 %s", ppm_name);
> I use i_view32 from irfanview.com, as I don't know of
> another win32 viewer that understands ppm images.
>
>
> Hope this helps
> _______________________________________
> Andy Adler,                adler at ncf dot ca
>
>
>
>
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