From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 18 15:39:09 2005 Subject: Octave on cygwin From: A Hodel To: help at octave dot org Cc: Jeff Hunt Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:44:43 -0600 One of my students is attempting to install and run octave on the=20 cygwin environment, which I do not have. If anyone can make a=20 recommendation on how to proceed, I'd be grateful for the help. He is getting the error message: The error reads: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be=20 located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. I=92ve downloaded gp400win32.zip and unzipped it to = c:\Octave\gp400win32.=20 I didn=92t see any .exe files in the bin folder though. I also = changed=20 the octaverc file by adding the commands listed on the octave install=20 link =93the hard way=94. A Scottedward Hodel, PhD, Associate Professor Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall Auburn University, AL 36849-5201 (334) 844-1854 Fax: (34) 844-1809 http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------