> I've just installed Octave 3.2.3 using the Windows Installer of 
> Octave and Octave-Forge from http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html.
> I selected the Signal and Windows packages, and I saw the Windows 
> package being processed near the end of the installation process.
> However, when I invoke a .m file that contains a call to 
> actxserver I get the error message
>      error: `actxserver' undefined near line 29 column 8
> Is there something more I need to do in order to use it?

As the README, CHANGELOG and KNOWN_ISSUES files point out, 
there is an issue with "clear all" segfaulting octave when 
certain packages are loaded
(mind, only if they are loaded, not simply installed)

This is a rather nasty bug, so to avoid having octave simply
crashing by default these packages are marked "-noauto" which 
means they are not automatically loaded when octave starts. 

This concerns the packages windows, communications, ga and octcdf.

If you require any functions from these packages you have to 
manually load them by doing
  pkg load windows

If you want to have them loaded automatically, do
  pkg rebuild -auto windows

be aware that this then triggers the "clear all" issue.

Yes I know this is not exactly comfortable, but that's the way is 
is currently.

benjamin
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