RE: Windows 8

[Earl Ebert]

Yes. You’re correct. I am not compiling from source. I downloaded using Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303.7z. When I fire it up, I see

 

 

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Octave was configured for "i686-pc-mingw32".

 

 

Does this help identify the problem?

 

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From: Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden>
Sent: October 31, 2012 1:52 PM
To: Earl Ebert <address@hidden>
CC: Octave users list <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Windows 8

 

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:13 PM, cmoibenlepro <address@hidden> wrote:

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> It's likely a problem with the BLAS library, which is very tricky to
> compile. Someone would need to recompile it for Windows 8.

I tried to uninstall Octave, and reinstall it using "Generic" parameter
instead of OpenBLAS, but the issue remains.




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Earl,
Since it's windows, is it safe to assume you weren't compiling from source and were using one of the pre-compiled Octave Forge versions? Which one, there are "MinGW" and "Visual Studio" versions of Octave 3.6.2.  The MinGW version isn't actually an installer, you just unzip (well, un 7Z) to an Octave folder. If your problem was with the Visual Studio version, does the MinGW version work?

Also, I've never installed the Visual Studio version, but the MinGW version has a readme.txt describing a number of options that can be set for libblas.dll .  Would any of these changes make a difference under Win8?


Nick J.