From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov 18 21:02:38 2003 Subject: Re: Problem GNU Octave and Cygwin running simultaneously From: pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net To: "Ashman,Tim [PYR]" , "'help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu'" Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:05:20 -0000 On 18 Nov 2003 at 18:04, Ashman,Tim [PYR] wrote: > > I recently forwarded the question below to Cygwin. They replied > saying it was likely a problem with the Octave installation and the > cygwin1.dll file should not have been installed. If you could help, > that would be appreciated. Thank you. > ----------------- > I am experiencing trouble having both Cgywin and Gnu Octave 2.1.36 > installed on my Windows 2000 machine. Why not Octave 2.1.50? > Gnu Octave 2.1.36 is a package downloaded from sourceforge.net that > incorporates Octave, Gnuplot, and Cygwin, to the best of my > knowledge. I originally had it installed alone. Yesterday, I > installed Cygwin in order to run some bash scripts and crontab tasks. > Following this, Octave would not operate, so I re-installed Octave. > Now, when working in Cygwin, I am having troubles. First of all the > root has changed to the Gnuplot root. The two also seem to be > interfering with each other. This error output has appeared: You have > multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. > Has anyone had a similar problem? Can I continue working with both > programs installed? How can I assure they won't interfere, and can I > have a separate root for each program? They shouldn't interfere because the octave.sf.net version of cygwin uses different registry keys. It co-exists with cygwin happily on my machine and many others. Paul Kienzle pkienzle at users dot sf dot net ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------