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Octave for Windows

From Octave
GNU Octave is primarily developed on GNU/Linux and other POSIX conformal systems. The ports
of GNU Octave to Windows use different approaches to get most of the original Octave and adapt it
to Microsoft Windows idiosyncrasies (eg: dynamic libraries, file paths, permissions, environment
variables, GUI system, etc). Bear this in mind and don't panic if you get unexpected results. There
are a lot of suggestions on the mailing lists for tuning your Octave installation.
About version numbers (Feb 2012):
The 3.6.x are current releases.
The 3.4.x are previous releases.
The 3.2.x are very old releases.

Contents
1 Standalone ports
1.1 Octave-3.6.1-mingw + octaveforge pkgs
1.1.1 Files for manual installation
1.1.2 Manual installation instructions
1.1.3 Manual installation instructions for the Octave-forge packages
1.1.4 Optional installation of Notepad++ as an editor (recommended)
1.1.5 Troubleshooting
1.2 Octave-3.6.0-mingw + octaveforge pkgs
1.2.1 Files for manual installation
1.2.2 Manual installation instructions
1.2.3 Manual installation instructions for the Octave-forge packages
1.2.4 Optional installation of Notepad++ as an editor (recommended)
1.2.5 Troubleshooting
1.3 Octave-3.4.3-mingw + octaveforge pkgs
1.3.1 Troubleshooting
1.4 Octave-3.4.2-mingw + octaveforge pkgs
1.4.1 Installation
1.4.2 Notes
1.5 Octave 3.2.4 for Windows MinGW32
1.5.1 Includes
1.5.2 Notes
2 Octave on Cygwin
2.1 Octave 3.6.1 on cygwin
2.1.1 Notes
3 Octave with Visual Studio
3.1 Installation
3.2 Using the Visual C++ compiler with Octave
3.3 Octave 3.6.1
3.3.1 Download
3.3.2 Content

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Standalone ports
Octave-3.6.1-mingw + octaveforge pkgs
Files for manual installation
1. Octave-3.6.1-mingw binaries tree
Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303.7z - MD5:294B99B5E4D47CAA83E8940EB2918D10
This is a 7z archive which includes a directory tree of all the binaries and libraries
required for a complete octave installation (excluding octaveforge packages)
It can be downloaded from Ocatve Forge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.6.1%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20installer/)
The archive include:
octave-3.6.1 including PDF documentation (built by Tatsuro Matsuka
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/)
OpenBLAS-r0.1alpha2.5 and ATLAS-3.8.4 based libblas altenatives
mingw32 + msys tool chain
gnuplot-4.4.4
fig2dev-3.2.5c
ghostscript-9.0.4
pstoedit-3.60
Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi
Latest update: 2012-03-03
2. Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.6.1-mingw
Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20120303.7z MD5:44A85F26A8925FEC5E1F0856408C9DD5
It can be downloaded from Ocatve Forge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.6.1%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20installer/)
This is a 7z archive which includes additional binaries and libraries for a set of
octaveforge packages.
The included packages are:

actuarial-1.1.0
ad-1.0.6_patched
audio-1.1.4
benchmark-1.1.1
bim-1.0.2
bioinfo-0.1.2
civil-engineering-1.0.7
combinatorics-1.0.9
communications-1.1.0_svn20120127_patched
control-2.2.5

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data-smoothing-1.3.0
dataframe-0.9.1
econometrics-1.0.8
fenv-0.1.0
financial-0.3.2
fpl-1.2.0
fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.3.0
ga-0.9.8
general-1.2.2
generate_html-0.1.3
geometry-1.4.0
gnuplot-1.0.1
gpc-0.1.7
gsl-1.0.8
ident-1.0.7
image-1.0.15
informationtheory-0.1.8
integration-1.0.7_svn20120128
io-1.0.17
irsa-1.0.7
java-1.2.8_patched
linear-algebra-2.1.0_svn20120225
mapping-1.0.7
mechanics-1.2.0
miscellaneous-1.0.11_svn20120127
missing-functions-1.0.2
msh-1.0.2
multicore-0.2.15
nan-2.5.2
nlwing2-1.2.0
nnet-0.1.13
nurbs-1.3.5
ocs-0.1.3_svn20120128_patched
octclip-1.0.0
octgpr-1.2.0
odebvp-1.0.6
odepkg-0.8.0_svn20120127
optim-1.0.17_patched
optiminterp-0.3.4_svn20120128_patched
outliers-0.13.9
physicalconstants-0.1.7
plot-1.1.0
quaternion-1.0.0
queueing-1.0.0
secs1d-0.0.8
secs2d-0.0.8
secs3d-0.0.1
signal-1.1.2
simp-1.1.0
sockets-1.0.7_svn20120128_patched
specfun-1.1.0
special-matrix-1.0.7
spline-gcvspl-1.0.8

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splines-1.0.7
statistics-1.1.0_svn20120128
strings-1.0.7
struct-1.0.9
symband-1.0.10
symbolic-1.1.0
tcl-octave-0.1.8
time-1.0.9
tsa-4.1.1
video-1.0.2_patched
vrml-1.0.12_svn20111014_patched
windows-1.1.0
xraylib-1.0.8
zenity-0.5.7

Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi

Latest update: 2012-03-03

Manual installation instructions

1. Create an installation directory of which doesn't have space chars (i.e.
C:\Octave\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2\). This directory is referred hereafter as <your_install_dir>.
2. Extract the complete directories tree from Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303.7z to the
installation directory keeping the original directory structure as in the archive (you can use 7zip tool from http://www.7-zip.org/).
3. Copy octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties respectively
to point to <your_install_dir>\bin\octave.exe and <your_install_dir>\share\octave\3.6.1
\imagelib\octave-logo.ico as an icon
4. Copy octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_docs.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties
respectively to point to <your_install_dir>\doc\octave and
<your_install_dir>\share\octave\3.6.1\imagelib\octave-logo.ico as an icon.
At this point you can:
a. Launch and use octave by double-clicking the copied octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2.lnk
b. Access and browse the documentation files by double-clicking the copied
octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_docs.lnk
5. Optional libblas dll replacements:
<your_install_dir>\bin directory includes several libblas.dll.<libblas_source> where
<libblas_source> is a text extension which describes the source of the library
a. libblas.dll.ref - reference blas implementation, very slow but most stable
b. libblas.dll.libopenblas_dynamicarch-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based, up to
2 threads, detects cpu architecture and selects respective lib
c. libblas.dll.libopenblas_dynamicarch_nt4-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based,
up to 4 threads, detects cpu architecture and selects respective lib
d. libblas.dll.libopenblas_nehalemp-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based, up to 2
threads, tuned for nehalem cpu architecture
e. libblas.dll.libopenblas_nehalemp_nt4-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based, up to
4 threads, tuned for nehalem cpu architecture
f. libblas.dll.libopenblas_core2p-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based, up to 2
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g. libblas.dll.libopenblas_core2p_nt4-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 - Openblas based, up to 4

threads, tuned for core2 cpu architecture
h. libblas.dll.altas-3.8.4_ht-pentium - ATLAS based libblass, tuned for older ht-pentium
(compiled by Tatsuro Matsuka)
i. libblas.dll.altas-3.8.4_corei5 - ATLAS based libblass, tuned for older core i5 cpu
(compiled by Tatsuro Matsuka)
Default installed libblass.dll is libopenblas_dynamicarch-r0.1alpha2.5-0-fda39c6 which
intended to automatically detect the cpu architecture and select a respectivly tuned
library
In case the default library is not properly functioning on the actual cpu, or you wish to
explore the performance with another liblas.dll.<libblas_source> it can be manually
selected to replace the default one:
a. Exit octave
b. Delete <your_install_dir>\bin\libblas.dll
c. Make a copy of the desired <your_install_dir>\bin\libblas.dll.<libblas_source>
d. Rename the copy of the desired <your_install_dir>\bin\libblas.dll.<libblas_source> to
libblas.dll

Manual installation instructions for the Octave-forge packages

1. Extract the complete directories tree from Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20120303.7z to the
installation directory (<your_install_dir>) keeping the original directory structure as in the
archive (you can use 7zip tool from http://www.7-zip.org/).
2. In order to update octave_packages database with your installation tree and auto-load most
packages (excluding 'ad' and 'windows' which may crash octave when loaded and 'clear all' is
executed), launch Octave and execute the following 3 rebuild commands from the octave
console:
pkg
pkg
pkg
pkg
pkg

rebuild
rebuild
rebuild
rebuild
rebuild

1.

-auto
-noauto ad windows
-noauto nan % shadows many statistics functions
-noauto gsl % shadows some core functions
-auto java

Last pkg rebuild command is required in order for the java pkg entry to be moved to the
top of <your_install_dir>\share\octave\octave_packages db file - thus java pkg is loaded
before io pkg is loaded, and io pkg related jars are added to java class path.

2. You can optionally adjust your installed packages status per your specific needs and usage by
executing the following commands:
a. To interactively load or unload a package
pkg load <pkg_name>

or
pkg unload <pkg_name>

b. To disable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

pkg rebuild -noauto <pkg_name>

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c. To enable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

pkg rebuild -auto <pkg_name>

d. To completely uninstall a package

pkg uninstall <pkg_name>

Optional installation of Notepad++ as an editor (recommended)

1. Download recent Notepad++ installation package from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ and
install it on your system.
2. Edit <your_install_dir>\share\octave\site\m\startup\octaverc and un-comment the line which
sets octave default editor:
EDITOR('C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe');

Note: You may adjust the above line for the location of notepad++.exe as installed on your
system.

Troubleshooting
Upon launching, some warnings may be displayed. These warnings can be ignored.
Following warnings are about missing external tools which may reduce some of the functions
of some packages. These external tools are not provided by the 7z archives in sourceforge.
warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

Following warning is about fstat function of the statistics package that overloads the old (to be
deprecated) fstat function of octave-3.6.1

warning: function C:\Octave\3.6.1_gcc-4.6.2\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.1.0\fstat.m shadows a core library

Octave-3.6.0-mingw + octaveforge pkgs

Files for manual installation
1. Octave-3.6.0-mingw binaries tree
Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_20120129.7z MD5:53E4823B0DC5F2923C4CBCB8B60FC1B6
This is a 7z archive which includes a directory tree of all the binaries and libraries
required for a complete octave installation (excluding octaveforge packages)

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It can be downloaded from octave forge

(http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.6.0%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%
20installer/Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_20120129.7z/download)
The archive include:
octave-3.6.0 including PDF documentation (built by Tatsuro Matsuka
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/)
mingw32 + msys tool chain
gnuplot-4.4.4
fig2dev-3.2.5c
ghostscript-9.0.4
pstoedit-3.60
Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi
Latest update: 2012-01-29
2. Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.6.0-mingw
Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20120128.7z MD5:93CC6207EED411BCE747193D3A8B6625
It can be downloaded from octave forge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.6.0%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%
20installer/Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20120128.7z/download)
This is a 7z archive which includes additional binaries and libraries for a set of
octaveforge packages.
The included packages are:

actuarial-1.1.0
ad-1.0.6_patched
audio-1.1.4
benchmark-1.1.1
bim-1.0.2
bioinfo-0.1.2
civil-engineering-1.0.7
combinatorics-1.0.9
communications-1.1.0_svn20120127_patched
control-2.2.4
data-smoothing-1.2.3
dataframe-0.8.2
econometrics-1.0.8
fenv-0.1.0
financial-0.3.2
fpl-1.2.0
fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.3.0
ga-0.9.8
general-1.2.2
generate_html-0.1.3
geometry-1.4.0
gnuplot-1.0.1
gpc-0.1.7

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gsl-1.0.8
ident-1.0.7
image-1.0.15
informationtheory-0.1.8
integration-1.0.7_svn20120128
io-1.0.16
irsa-1.0.7
java-1.2.8_patched
linear-algebra-2.1.0_svn20120127
mapping-1.0.7
mechanics-1.2.0
miscellaneous-1.0.11_svn20120127
missing-functions-1.0.2
msh-1.0.2
multicore-0.2.15
nlwing2-1.2.0
nnet-0.1.13
nurbs-1.3.5
ocs-0.1.3_svn20120128_patched
octclip-1.0.0
octgpr-1.2.0
odebvp-1.0.6
odepkg-0.8.0_svn20120127
optim-1.0.17_patched
optiminterp-0.3.4_svn20120128_patched
outliers-0.13.9
physicalconstants-0.1.7
plot-1.1.0
quaternion-1.0.0
secs1d-0.0.8
secs2d-0.0.8
secs3d-0.0.1
signal-1.1.2
simp-1.1.0
sockets-1.0.7_svn20120128_patched
specfun-1.1.0
special-matrix-1.0.7
spline-gcvspl-1.0.8
splines-1.0.7
statistics-1.1.0_svn20120128
strings-1.0.7
struct-1.0.9
symband-1.0.10
symbolic-1.1.0
tcl-octave-0.1.8
time-1.0.9
tsa-4.1.1
video-1.0.2_patched
vrml-1.0.12_svn20111014_patched
windows-1.1.0
xraylib-1.0.8
zenity-0.5.7

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Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi

Latest update: 2012-01-28

Manual installation instructions

1. Create an installation directory of which doesn't have space chars (i.e.
C:\Octave\Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2\). This directory is referred hereafter as <your_install_dir>.
2. Extract the complete directories tree from Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_20120129.7z to the
installation directory keeping the original directory structure as in the archive (you can use 7zip tool from http://www.7-zip.org/).
3. Copy octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties respectively
to point to <your_install_dir>\bin\octave.exe and <your_install_dir>\share\octave\3.6.0
\imagelib\octave-logo.ico as an icon
4. Copy octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_docs.lnk to any convenient location and edit its properties
respectively to point to <your_install_dir>\doc\octave and
<your_install_dir>\share\octave\3.6.0\imagelib\octave-logo.ico as an icon.
At this point you can:
a. Launch and use octave by double-clicking the copied octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2.lnk
b. Access and browse the documentation files by double-clicking the copied
octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_docs.lnk

Manual installation instructions for the Octave-forge packages

1. Extract the complete directories tree from Octave3.6.0_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20120128.7z to the
installation directory (<your_install_dir>) keeping the original directory structure as in the
archive (you can use 7zip tool from http://www.7-zip.org/).
2. In order to update octave_packages database with your installation tree and auto-load most
packages (excluding 'ad' and 'windows' which may crash octave when loaded and 'clear all' is
executed), launch Octave and execute the following 3 rebuild commands from the octave
console:
pkg rebuild -auto
pkg rebuild -noauto ad windows
pkg rebuild -auto java

1.

Last pkg rebuild command is required in order for the java pkg entry to be moved to the
top of <your_install_dir>\share\octave\octave_packages db file - thus java pkg is loaded
before io pkg is loaded, and io pkg related jars are added to java class path.

2. You can optionally adjust your installed packages status per your specific needs and usage by
executing the following commands:
a. To interactively load or unload a package
pkg load <pkg_name>

or
pkg unload <pkg_name>

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b. To disable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

pkg rebuild -noauto <pkg_name>

c. To enable auto-load for specific pkg <pkg_name>

pkg rebuild -auto <pkg_name>

d. To completely uninstall a package

pkg uninstall <pkg_name>

Optional installation of Notepad++ as an editor (recommended)

1. Download recent Notepad++ installation package from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ and
install it on your system.
2. Edit <your_install_dir>\share\octave\site\m\startup\octaverc and un-comment the line which
sets octave default editor:
EDITOR('C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe');

Note: You may adjust the above line for the location of notepad++.exe as installed on your
system.

Troubleshooting
Upon launching, some warnings may be displayed. These warnings can be ignored.
Following warnings are about missing external tools which may reduce some of the functions
of some packages. These external tools are not provided by the 7z archives in sourceforge.
warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

Following warning is about fstat function of the statistics package that overloads the old (to be
deprecated) fstat function of octave-3.6.0

warning: function C:\Octave\3.6.0_gcc-4.6.2\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.1.0\fstat.m shadows a core library

Octave-3.4.3-mingw + octaveforge pkgs

1. Octave-3.4.3-mingw (without pkgs)
Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_20111025.7z MD5:5AA004D933E000E762AE2AE95573ACBD http://www.multiupload.com/KDQ1N463UW

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2. Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.4.3-mingw

Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20111026.7z MD5:2987F6078B4AD161F2D23634D5109D61 http://www.multiupload.com/7U6J23CSZ6
The above archive files are now able to be downloaded from octave forge
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.2.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW32%20Installer/)

Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi

Latest update: 2011-10-26
Packages are archived by 7zip. 7zip software can be download from http://www.7-zip.org/
Octave Binaries are built using Tatsuro Matsuka OctaveLibs.zip and gplibs.zip
(http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/)

Troubleshooting
Upon launching, some warnings may be displayed. The following warnings can be ignored:
Following warning is about interpretation of logical operators (on scalars) in octave which is
slightly different than matlab's interpretation.
warning: C:\Octave\3.4.3_gcc-4.5.2\share\octave\packages\integration-1.0.7\PKG_ADD: possible Matlab-style short
at line 9, column 32

Following messages are from java package about loading of java classes that have been found
and how to manually run a statement which will display its capabilities.
io PKG_ADD: java classes has been found and added in C:\Octave\3.4.3_gcc-4.5.2\bin
io PKG_ADD: run chk_spreadsheet_support([],3) to view io support

Following warnings are about missing external tools which may reduce some of the functions
of some packages. These external tools are not provided by the 7z archives in sourceforge.
warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

Following warning is about fstat function of the statistics package that overloads the old (to be
deprecated) fstat function of octave-3.4.3

warning: function C:\Octave\3.4.3_gcc-4.5.2\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.0.10\fstat.m shadows a core librar

Octave-3.4.2-mingw + octaveforge pkgs

1. Octave-3.4.2-mingw (without pkgs)

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Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_20110914.7z MD5:4AA0DD4C97F73B2E9E0F7370CD8AD719 http://www.multiupload.com/TCUHKNNH9S

2. Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.4.2-mingw
Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20111014.7z MD5:49097AF3C6FC6CDB58EE83F510A50993 http://www.multiupload.com/DCWFZOUGZA
Maintainer: Nitzan Arazi
Latest update: 2011-10-14
Packages are archived by the 7zip. The 7zip software can be download from http://www.7zip.org/
Octave Binaries are built by Tatsuro Matsuoka
(http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/)
Octave manual (octave-3.4.2.pdf.zip, octave-3.4.2.html.zip) can be downloaded
from http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/

Installation
The installation instructions are the same as for the 3.4.3 version, above.

Notes
For details, please see http://old.nabble.com/Octave-3.4.2-mingw-%2B-octaveforge-pkgsto32394771.html
Upon launching, some warnings may be displayed. The following warnings can be ignored:
Following warning is about interpretation of logical operators (on scalars) in octave which is
slightly different than matlab's interpretation.
warning: C:\Octave\Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2\share\octave\packages\integration-1.0.7\PKG_ADD: possible Matlab
short-circuit operator at line 9, column 32

Following warnings are about missing external tools which may reduce some of the functions
of some packages. These external tools are not provided by the 7z archives in sourceforge.
warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

Following warning is about fstat function of the statistics package that overloads the old (to be
deprecated) fstat function of octave-3.4.3

warning: function C:\Octave\Octave3.4.2_gcc4.5.2\share\octave\packages\statistics-1.0.10\fstat.m shadows a core l

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Octave 3.2.4 for Windows MinGW32

Download: Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.2.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW32%20Installer/Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc
-4.4.0_setup.exe/download)
Maintainer: Benjamin Lindner
Latest release: 2010-03-25

Includes

GNU Octave, version 3.2.4 (i686-pc-mingw32)

atlas 3.8.2
mingw32 (GCC 4.4.0 on http://www.mingw.org )
gnuplot Version 4.4.0 specially prepared for octave
mini-MSYS 1.0.11
notepad++ 5.6.7 as text editor
Some components of octave-forge packages
actuarial-1.1.0 (New!)
audio-1.1.4
benchmark-1.1.1
bim-1.0.0 (New!)
bioinfo-0.1.2
combinatorics-1.0.9
communications-1.0.10
control-1.0.11
data-smoothing-1.2.0
econometrics-1.0.8
fenv-0.1.0 (New!)
financial-0.3.2
fixed-0.7.10
fpl-1.0.0 (New!)
ga-0.9.7
general-1.2.0 (updated)
generate_html-0.1.2 (New!)
gnuplot-1.0.1 (New!)
gpc-0.1.7
gsl-1.0.8
ident-1.0.7
image-1.0.10
informationtheory-0.1.8
integration-1.0.7
io-1.0.11 (updated)
irsa-1.0.7
java-1.2.7 (New!)
jhandles-0.3.5 (New!)
linear-algebra-1.0.8
mapping-1.0.7
miscellaneous-1.0.9
missing-functions-1.0.2
msh-1.0.0 (New!)
nlwing2-1.1.1 (New!)

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nnet-0.1.10
nurbs-1.0.3 (New!)
ocs-0.0.4 (New!)
oct2mat-1.0.7 (New!)
octcdf-1.0.17 (updated 1.0.17+)
octgpr-1.1.5 (New!)
odebvp-1.0.6
odepkg-0.6.10 (updated)
optim-1.0.12 (updated)
optiminterp-0.3.2
outliers-0.13.9
physicalconstants-0.1.7
plot-1.0.7
quaternion-1.0.0
signal-1.0.10
simp-1.1.0 (New!)
sockets-1.0.5
specfun-1.0.8
special-matrix-1.0.7
spline-gcvspl-1.0.8 (New!)
splines-1.0.7
statistics-1.0.9
strings-1.0.7
struct-1.0.7
symband-1.0.10 (New!)
symbolic-1.0.9
time-1.0.9
video-1.0.2 (New!)
windows-1.0.8(updated to 1.0.8+)
zenity-0.5.7

Notes
Although there are some remaining known issues, some bugs reported to the octave-3.2.3 have
been corrected. In addition, useful octave-forge packages are added (Java, Jhandles, ....).
Please see RELEASE_NOTES.txt (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%
20Windows%20binaries/Octave%203.2.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW32%
20Installer/RELEASE_NOTES-3.2.4.txt/download) for details:
Default Octave install folder changed to e.g. C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\.
If you have installed octave in a folder where the path name has whitespace, for
example, C:\Program Files\, 'pkg install (package name)' command will fail: See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?
msg_name=4A1AF9EF.1000005@hotmail.com for details
Additional important topics found after the release:
It is reported that the oct2mat octave-forge package affects plot related commands. The
purpose of the package is to convert m-file into matlab-compatible coding style. Please see the
documentation of the octave-forge (oct2mat - freetb4matlab) from
http://octave.sourceforge.net/functions_by_package.php)
Report for this problem: http://old.nabble.com/Re:-Octave-3.2.4-mingw32-availablep28053703.html

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Explanation of the problem: http://old.nabble.com/Re:-Octave-3.2.4-mingw32-available

-p28090303.html
Realistic solution at this moment, do not install the oct2mat package when you install
octave with octave-forge packages if you do not use this package. Another solution is to
execute
pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat

at the octave prompt and then restart octave. The operation results in the oct2mat
package not to be auto-loaded in startup. When you want to use oct2mat, execute
pkg load oct2mat

The plot octave-forge package still have ginput code although the ginput function is now
merge into octave itself. Therefore conflict occur if the plot package is installed. To avoid this
problem, rename 'ginput.m' in the folder ..\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0
\share\octave\packages\plot-1.0.7, for example ginput.ob.m. In some computers which
has one core CPU, response of ginput is very slow. In the case, modify
'__gnuplot_ginput__.m' according to the following thread. http://old.nabble.com/ginput-onOctave-3.2.4-mingw32-to28093888.html
From gnuplot-4.4.0, the default terminal of gnuplot for windows is the wxt terminal. Some
users may set the GNUTERM environmental variable for the windows terminal being default.
The gnuplot for windows allows to set GNUTERM to 'win' (abbreviated form) but octave does
not recognize the abbreviated form for terminal name. If one would like set GNUTERM to
windows terminal, one should specify it as 'windows' (full form) but not 'win' (abbreviated
form). In detail see the following thread: http://old.nabble.com/flicking-problem-again-Octave
-3.2.4-mingw32-td28038688.html

Octave on Cygwin
Octave 3.6.1 on cygwin
Web-Site: http://cygwin.com
Maintainer: Marco Atzeri
Latest release: 2012-02-27
Latest packages:
octave-3.6.1-1
octave-forge-20120224-1
To install : run cygwin setup.exe and select them in the Math category .
On Cygwin 1.7.9-1 the communication between octave and gnuplot is broken due to a cygwin
bug.
Please use version cygwin 1.7.11-1 or later.

Notes

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Not needed anymore, but just in case you want to try one cygwin snapshot.
HOWTO install a cygwin snapshot:
download cygwin1-20120227.dll.bz2 (current last) from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
bunzip2 cygwin1-20120227.dll.bz2
cp cygwin1-20120227.dll cygwin1.dll
cp /bin/cygwin1.dll /bin/cygwin1.dll_backup

exit all cygwin processes and from windows explorer

copy the cygwin1.dll snapshot to
c:\cygwin\bin
(or in the equivalent directory of your cygwin installation).

Graphics is based on X, so to plot you need to start octave within xterm (or similar).
A new fltk graphics_toolkit is available, and the crash on "print" issue was solved starting
from 3.4.2-3 using the patch proposed here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31641
If a dlls collision arise, the correct invocation of the rebase utility within dash shell is:
rebaseall -s "dll|so|oct"

as octave dll's use unexpected ".oct" suffix for its own extension.
For general build notes, see etc/README.Cygwin.
When building from development source (default branch)
"make check"

passes almost all the tests.

Only, and not substantial, failures are:
/pub/hg/octave/src/data.cc : 8 failures due to different handling of complex Inf on sort
/pub/hg/octave/src/syscalls.cc: 1 failure on fork. This disappears when octave is installed
/pub/hg/octave/scripts/sparse/svds.m: 1 failure due to test sensitivity on starting point. See
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-September/024715.html

To build from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant
development libraries
$ tar -xvjf octave-3.6.1-1-src.tar.bz2
gl2ps-print.patch
octave-3.6.1-1.cygport
octave-3.6.1-1.cygwin.patch
octave-3.6.1-1.src.patch
octave-3.6.1.tar.bz2

$ cygport octave-3.6.1-1.cygport almostall

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see cygport documentation for further info.

Octave with Visual Studio

Octave binaries compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio are available for download from OctaveForge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%
203.6.1%20for%20Windows%20Microsoft%20Visual%20Studio/) . These binaries come in the
form of an easy-to-use installer (created with NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) ) and are provided
in 2 flavors: pre-compiled version for Visual Studio 2008 and for Visual Studio 2010.
These binaries do not include the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. This must be installed separately,
but is only required if you plan to compile and link source code against the pre-compiled octave
release. If the Visual C++ compiler is not present on the target system, then the Visual C++ runtime
libraries must be installed prior the installation of these binaries. These runtime libraries are support
libraries that are required by any code compiled with the Visual C++ compiler. They can be
downloaded for free from the Microsoft download site:
Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?
id=5582)
Visual C++ 2010 runtime libraries (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?
id=8328)
Note that if you already installed other software on your system, there is a possibility that these
runtime libraries are already present. Search for a files named msvcr90.dll (Visual Studio 2008) or
msvcr100.dll (Visual Studio 2010) in the %WINDIR% directory (usually C:\WINDOWS).

Installation
The pre-compiled versions for Visual Studio come in the form of a self-installing executable. Simply
download the executable, run it and follow the installer instructions. To avoid possible problems
with white spaces in the octave paths, it is strongly recommended to install octave in a directory
that do not contain any white spaces.

Using the Visual C++ compiler with Octave

As of version 3.6.1, the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler is not automatically detected. If you need to
use it from octave (for instance to compile a MEX or OCT file), then you must configure your
system by updating the appropriate environment variables: %PATH%, %INCLUDE% and %
LIB%. One way to achieve this easily is to call the vcvarsall.bat script (from the Visual C++
installation directory) prior executing octave. You can for instance automate this by creating a batch
script with the following content (adapt paths to your actual installation):
call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
"C:\Octave-3.6.1\bin\octave.exe"

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Octave 3.6.1
Download
Octave-Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%
20binaries/Octave%203.6.1%20for%20Windows%20Microsoft%20Visual%20Studio/)

Content

Octave 3.6.1
ATLAS 3.8.4 single-threaded (SSE/SSE2/SSE3) and multi-threaded (SSE3, 2 threads)
All required libraries
QtHandles (https://github.com/goffioul/QtHandles)
Octave GUI (experimental, compiled from development sources)
Gnuplot 4.4.4
72 packages from Octave-Forge

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