On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote: > søn, 05 06 2011 kl. 19:40 +0100, skrev Andy Buckle: >> The NSIS installer for mingw octave 3.2.4 has a bug for some locales. >> I made a simple zip, which solves the problem. It is here: >> >> http://www.mediafire.com/?n259em9ekxuz1z6 >> >> Please can it be uploaded to sourceforge? > > Sorry for asking stupid questions here, but as I haven't used Windows in > the last decade (I'm getting old...), I really am ignorant... > > Is this complementary to the current installer or does it obsolete it or > how does this work? To make this work in Windows, would I need to > install using the current executable and then overwrite with the > contents of your zip file? How should this zip file be presented to new > users on the web page?
It is complementary. The current installer is better. It does clever stuff like recognise CPU and install optimised version of ATLAS. However, the current installer was made using NSIS. It turns out that NSIS has a bug, which means that some locales cannot use it, it just will not run. This zip makes it possible for those locales to use the latest mingw version of octave. To use, it needs to be extracted. Then, C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe starts octave. -- /* andy buckle */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
