From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 14 02:58:44 2005
Subject: Re: Yet another thread on Octave on Windows.
From: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:59:36 +0100

Hi,

I found the source-function, and used it. But this is not practical 
usage, since Octave should handle it's own m-files and oct-files all by 
it self. Which file/class handles this behaviour? I guess it's the 
kpathsea-files for path, but which class/files handles the loading of 
m-files and oct-files?
I'll  take one more look at the kpathsea-files?
BTW, which classes/files are using kpathsea functionality?


I don't get the octave-prompt, when I start Octave from MinGW (MSYS) 
prompt, but I get it, when I start Octave from cmd (dos).
MSYS package works pretty much in the same way as Cygwin. Actually it 
looks like a mini-Cygwin, since it is mounting partition in the same way 
as Cygwin does. Just take a look:

> oleha at ZHERLOCK3 /d/Octave/OctaveBin/bin
> $ mount
> C:\DOCUME~1\oleha\LOCALS~1\Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount)
> D:\msys\1.0\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
> D:\msys\1.0\bin on /bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
> D:\msys\1.0 on / type user (binmode,noumount)
> D:\msys\1.0 on /usr type user (binmode,noumount)
> d:\MinGW on /mingw type user (binmode)
> a: on /a type user (binmode,noumount)
> c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
> d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
> e: on /e type user (binmode,noumount)

Cheers,

Ole J.

Laurent Mazet wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:44 +0100
>Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>I have compiled Octave-2.1.64 with MinGW (gcc-3.2.3), and it starts up.
>>
>>However, the path's is not correct, since functions like lu, qr, plot 
>>are not found by Octave.
>>I guess this is a kpathsea related error?
>>
>>How can I solve this?
>>    
>>
>
>You have to source the associate .m file. For example:
>
>source("/usr/share/octave/2.1.60/m/plot/plot.m")
>
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