Re: Cygwin install - instrument-control loads but nothing works

[Marco Atzeri]

On 02/09/2015 14:42, User1116 wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've installed Octave 4.0 through Cygwin and have been struggling with the
> instrument-control package.  I can load the package but even the simple
> serial interface does not seem to exist:
>
> octave:1> version
> ans = 4.0.0
> octave:2> pkg load instrument-control
> octave:3> exist("serial")
> ans = 0
>
> I have this package working on my native windows install but I'm trying to
> get it going in Cygwin to get the VXI11 interface
> (http://wiki.octave.org/Instrument_control_package).  I will eventually have
> to find rpcgen in cygwin for that interface but I'd like to get basic serial
> working first.

It seems I forgot at least a portion, building the package from source 
control.

Let me check a bit.

Regards
Marco