man, 06 06 2011 kl. 21:38 +0100, skrev Andy Buckle: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > søn, 05 06 2011 kl. 19:40 +0100, skrev Andy Buckle: > >> The NSIS installer for mingw octave 3.2.4 has a bug for some locales. > >> I made a simple zip, which solves the problem. It is here: > >> > >> http://www.mediafire.com/?n259em9ekxuz1z6 > >> > >> Please can it be uploaded to sourceforge? > > > > Sorry for asking stupid questions here, but as I haven't used Windows in > > the last decade (I'm getting old...), I really am ignorant... > > > > Is this complementary to the current installer or does it obsolete it or > > how does this work? To make this work in Windows, would I need to > > install using the current executable and then overwrite with the > > contents of your zip file? How should this zip file be presented to new > > users on the web page? > > It is complementary. > > The current installer is better. It does clever stuff like recognise > CPU and install optimised version of ATLAS. > > However, the current installer was made using NSIS. It turns out that > NSIS has a bug, which means that some locales cannot use it, it just > will not run. This zip makes it possible for those locales to use the > latest mingw version of octave. > > To use, it needs to be extracted. Then, > > C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe > > starts octave.
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