From help-request at octave dot org Fri Apr  1 04:08:42 2005
Subject: Re: Standalone windows install: why?
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu>, help@octave.org
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:04:36 +0200

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:04:39PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 31-Mar-2005, Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu> wrote:
> 
> | I would *love* to have a standalone windows install more recent than the 
> |   2.1.50, without having to do a cygwin install (and I'll check out the 
> | one posted), and I don't even run windows.
> 
> Do you mean that you want a simple way to install Octave on Windows,
> or that you want an Octave binary that does not depend on Cygwin at
> all?

Paul Kienzle has done a lot of work on the Windows installer.  He has
got everything in place -- it just needs a few tweaks.  The 2.1.50
distribution on the octave forge website depends only on a few loose
cygwin .dlls.

But even if we could distribute Octave as a zip file (a directory,
with a cygwin/gcc 3.2 compiled octave.exe and the appropriate .dlls)
it would already be helpful to many people.  Should be around 6Mb in
size -- much more accessible than the whole cygwin.

Regards
Stefan



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