From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 13 04:18:05 2005
Subject: Startup problems.
From: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
CC: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:18:47 +0100

Hi
Happy New Year.

I was able to compile Octave on Windows with MinGW , but running Octave 
doesn't work.
Well, I manage to start it, but here's a litte "screenshot":

> GNU Octave, version 2.1.64 (i686-pc-mingw32).
> Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
>
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>
> Report bugs to <bug at octave dot org> (but first, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
>
And here it stops. I am never entering the "octave-2.1.64>>"-prompt.

Here is a gdb-session as well.

> Starting program: d:\Octave\OctaveBin\bin/octave.exe
>
>
> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> 0x77f75a59 in _libmsvcrt_a_iname ()
> (gdb) warning: HEAP[octave.exe]:
> warning: Invalid Address specified to RtlFreeHeap( 003D0000, 00C14834 )

Why does this error occur?

How can I solve it? Any workarounds?


Cheers,

Ole J.