Re: octave on Cygwin / error running delaunay

[Andy Buckle]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Peter Schuerch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to octave and have recently installed it under CygWing running this 
> version of CygWin:
> $ uname
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1
>
> and running this version of Octave:
>
> $ octave --version
> GNU Octave, version 3.2.4
> Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
> [...]
>
>
> I tried the following commands:
>
> octave:1> x=rand(1,10);
> octave:2> y=rand(size(x));
> octave:3> T=delaunay(x,y);
> error: No such file or directory
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/geometry/delaunayn.m at line 55, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/geometry/delaunay.m at line 55, column 11
>
> I have checked, both files (delaunayn.m and delaunay.m) exist.
>
> Firstly I don't exactly understand what the problem is / what the error 
> message means and secondly what I need to do to rectify it.
> Is it a problem with the installation?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Peter

I think you are missing (or the system cannot find) __delaunayn__.oct.
Maybe a packaging error?

A quick solution would be to use the mingw version of octave instead:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/


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