Re: Octave for windows on USB stick?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Alasdair McAndrew 
>To: help 
>Date: 2015/3/27, Fri 15:17
>Subject: Octave for windows on USB stick?
> 
>
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering about the possibility of installing an octave executable on a 
>USB stick so that I could use it on any computer (running Windows!).  It would 
>seem to be possible, if maybe a little involved: using cygwin or some other 
>library.
>
>
>
>Can I download a stand-alone windows binary (that includes all the needed 
>libraries) and copy the octave.exe file to my USB drive - or is it more 
>complicated?
>
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Alasdair
>
Octave itself is relocatable. Therefore just copy all installed files with 
keeping folder structure to the USB memory.  However, octave-forge packages 
uses absolute path so that that they are not used as they are.

>> pkg rebuild all 

is required from octave prompt to re-usable octave-forge packages each time you 
insert the USB to PC.

Regards

Tatsuro