Re: Octave for windows on USB stick?

[John Donoghue]

On 03/27/2015 02:17 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> From: Alasdair McAndrew<address@hidden>
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> Subject: Octave for windows on USB stick?
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Many thanks,
> Alasdair
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You could probally create the standalone tarball with all the libraries 
etc on it from mxe-octave and untar that to a usb stick and run 
octave-gui.vbs in the untared folder