Re: Cygwin install is going great

[Ze Ji]

Can you tell me how you installed it, by source, or binary mode? And 
could you try to install octave-headers in order to use mkoctfile. As 
one question I raised before, I would like to know if Cygwin is working 
properly or not for this. I have used mkoctfile to do the example 
program Box.cpp from the http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTypes . But 
when I run the BoxMake function, I got error of "Aborted (core dumped)".

Thanks

Ze Ji

Mike Miller wrote:

> I just installed the entire Cygwin package on Win XP (32 bit) and sure 
> enough, Octave 2.1.71 was there as was Octave-Forge, and both seem to 
> be working fine.  I fired up X and ran a plot command -- Gnuplot 
> appeared and displayed my graph.
>
> After installing Cygwin, Octave "just worked."  To get plot to work I 
> only had to make a ~/.xinitrc and run xinit before running a plot 
> command. Thus, an absolutely minimal amount of work is required from 
> the user.
>
> I know it wasn't always this easy.  I want to recognize that things 
> are working great now and I want to thank everyone who contributed to 
> getting the Cygwin version of Octave and Octave-Forge up and running.  
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
> P.S.  I also tried the same thing on Win XP x64 and it failed.  This 
> is because of a Cygwin problem though and not an Octave problem, but 
> if any of you have managed to get Cygwin running under x64, I would 
> like to hear how you did it!  Thanks.



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