On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Okay, that sounds fair enough. How do you suggest we present this to
> users on the web site?
>
> Søren
Put the file here, next to the NSIS exe
https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave_Windows%20-%20MinGW/Octave%203.2.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW32%20Installer/
I have attached a suggestion for a a README to sit next to it.
It might deserve a mention somewhere else. But that should do for now.
--
/* andy buckle */
The archive (zip) version of mingw octave 3.2.4 is available here
for cases where the executable installer fails.
Unpack somewhere with no spaces in the path, "C:\", for example.
C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe
Will start Octave.
Notepad++ is also included, though is now out of date.
A recent version from http://sf.net/projects/notepad-plus/ is recommended .
See the README.txt file that is contained in the archive, and the
release notes for more information.
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