Re: msys from octave

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

For new windows installer, I and Benjamin do not work at all.

Nitzan made 3.4.3 and octave-forge binaries. 
Andy Buckle made the installer.

So I am forwarding your mail to the octave-help mailing list.

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- On Mon, 2011/12/26, Matt Flax  wrote:

> Dear Tatsuro and Benjamin,
> 
> First of all, happy new year and festive season.
> 
> I have a question regarding running mingw msys, gcc and so on using the 
> octave win32 installer.
> 
> I am trying to work out how to get a proper msys compiler (c++) running here 
> (on a virtual windows installation).
> 
> I have downloaded the installers from 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave_Windows%20-%20MinGW/Octave%203.4.3%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20Installer/
> 
> When I follow the readme, and extract everything into the correct place, I 
> find that I can't start msys correctly with a home directory ..
> 
> I have tried to run the pi.sh and pi.bat but they tell me that they can't 
> create the /home directory - when I try to create it myself, they still 
> report the same problem.
> 
> Can you please point me to a guide on how to get a proper home directory with 
> gcc/g++ operating under the octave installer ?
> Any information would be very helpful and I would be greatful for :)
> 
> thanks
> Matt
>