From help-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 5 11:45:47 2006 Subject: Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP From: Quentin Spencer To: Mike Miller CC: "John W. Eaton" , help@octave.org Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:36:41 -0600 Mike Miller wrote: > Maybe the issue with DLLs is that installing a stand-alone Octave that > requires the Cygwin DLL will mess up the system if Cygwin is installed > either before or after the Octave stand-alone is installed. Is that it? I think this is a bit of a problem, though probably not the reason that the 2.1.50 installer is still so popular. I recently tried a network installation of cygwin+octave and had to work around some problems created by the fact that cygwin creates some registry entires. These could cause conflicts between a parallel cygwin and standalone octave based on cygwin unless the standalone octave created a separate registry entry. I recall David Bateman was working on a MinGW build, which would avoid all of this, and probably be exactly what a lot of windows users are looking for. -Quentin ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------