From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 13 04:48:04 2005
Subject: Re: Startup problems.
From: Laurent Mazet <laurent dot mazet at motorola dot com>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:48:26 +0100

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:18:47 +0100
Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no> wrote:
> 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.

Well done. I never got the prompt but you can evaluate some commands. As I said
before, the MinGW build was very ugly

Laurent


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