package installation Octave

[Erik Brezet]

Hi,
I can't seem to get any packages (tar.gz) installed on Octave in
windows. Packages like: RODBC, xlsreadwrite, ga ..
Octave gives: error COPYING file missing or other errors.
I've got the mingw32 installer for windows.

Help?

bye
Erik
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[Benjamin Lindner]

Erik Brezet wrote:
> Hi,
> I can't seem to get any packages (tar.gz) installed on Octave in
> windows. Packages like: RODBC, xlsreadwrite, ga ..
> Octave gives: error COPYING file missing or other errors.
> I've got the mingw32 installer for windows.
>
> Help?

Well, not all available forge packages can be successfully built for the
mingw32 build.

Please provide some more information. Which version of octave do you
have installed? Which version of the package do you try to install? Can
you post the commands you executed and octave's error response?

With the 3.2.2 mingw32 installer I can for example install ga-0.9.7
without errors.

benjamin


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[Benjamin Lindner]

Erik Brezet wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Benjamin Lindner <lindnerben@...> wrote:
>> Erik Brezet wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I can't seem to get any packages (tar.gz) installed on Octave in
>>> windows. Packages like: RODBC, xlsreadwrite, ga ..
>>> Octave gives: error COPYING file missing or other errors.
>>> I've got the mingw32 installer for windows.
>>>
>>> Help?
>> Well, not all available forge packages can be successfully built for the
>> mingw32 build.
>>
>> Please provide some more information. Which version of octave do you have
>> installed? Which version of the package do you try to install? Can you post
>> the commands you executed and octave's error response?
>>
>> With the 3.2.2 mingw32 installer I can for example install ga-0.9.7 without
>> errors.
>>
>> benjamin
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi Benjamin and Anandaram,
> Thanks for your responses.
> I've got Octave 3.2.2. I still don't get the packages to work.
> For example, I want to install SPCtools:
>
> ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/tools/spctools
>
> and I unzip the files in the package directory
> "octave\share\octave\packeges\SPCtools"
> ,but when I run Octave, it doesn't recognize any of the commands..
>

Well, these tools are not an octave-forge-package, so they don't follow
octave's packaging rules, and they must not be installed in octave's
directory tree (well, it's not forbidden, but I'll encourage you not to
do so).

If you want to use tools like the above, then you must unzip them
somewhere on your local machine, e.g. into a subdirectory in your home
directory, and then tell octave where to find it by adding all paths
with scripts to octave's searchpath using the command addpath().
If you want to add a directory and all its aubdirectories, you might
also take a look at genpath().

hope this helps

benjamin

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[Benjamin Lindner]

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Benjamin Lindner
> wrote:
> > Erik Brezet wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Benjamin Lindner
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Erik Brezet wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> I can't seem to get any packages (tar.gz) installed on Octave in
> >>>> windows. Packages like: RODBC, xlsreadwrite, ga ..
> >>>> Octave gives: error COPYING file missing or other errors.
> >>>> I've got the mingw32 installer for windows.
> >>>>
> >>>> Help?
> >>>
> >>> Well, not all available forge packages can be successfully built for
> the
> >>> mingw32 build.
> >>>
> >>> Please provide some more information. Which version of octave do you
> have
> >>> installed? Which version of the package do you try to install? Can you
> >>> post
> >>> the commands you executed and octave's error response?
> >>>
> >>> With the 3.2.2 mingw32 installer I can for example install ga-0.9.7
> >>> without
> >>> errors.
> >>>
> >>> benjamin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Benjamin and Anandaram,
> >> Thanks for your responses.
> >> I've got Octave 3.2.2. I still don't get the packages to work.
> >> For example, I want to install SPCtools:
> >>
> >> ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/tools/spctools
> >>
> >> and I unzip the files in the package directory
> >> "octave\share\octave\packeges\SPCtools"
> >> ,but when I run Octave, it doesn't recognize any of the commands..
> >>
> >
> > Well, these tools are not an octave-forge-package, so they don't follow
> > octave's packaging rules, and they must not be installed in octave's
> > directory tree (well, it's not forbidden, but I'll encourage you not to
> do
> > so).
> >
> > If you want to use tools like the above, then you must unzip them
> somewhere
> > on your local machine, e.g. into a subdirectory in your home directory,
> and
> > then tell octave where to find it by adding all paths with scripts to
> > octave's searchpath using the command addpath().
> > If you want to add a directory and all its aubdirectories, you might
> also
> > take a look at genpath().
> >
> > hope this helps
> >
> > benjamin
> >
>
> Hi Benjamin,
> I used addpath and genpath to add all the directories of the SPC package.
> When I type "path" they appear in the list, so that seems ok.
> But how do I use the added .m functions now? When I type "help one of
> the functions" Octave
> doesn't recognize the function of the added directories..
>

Please keep the discussion on the mailing-list.

There seems to be a problem with case-sensitive file matching

C:\temp> type foo.m
function y = foo(x)

C:\temp> type BAZ.M
function y = baz(x)

octave:> dir
.      ..     BAZ.M  foo.m
octave:> which foo
`foo' is a function from the file c:\temp\foo.m
octave:> which BAZ
octave:> glob("*.m")
ans =
{
  [1,1] = foo.m
}
octave:> glob("*.M")
ans =
{
  [1,1] = BAZ.M
}

ren BAZ.M BAZ.m

octave:> dir
.      ..     BAZ.m  foo.m
octave:> which baz
octave:> which BAZ
warning: function name `baz' does not agree with function file name `c:\temp\BAZ.m'
`BAZ' is a function from the file c:\temp\BAZ.m

Octave obviously treats file names case-sensitive which makes little sense on case-insensitive file systems.
Hmm, this needs some investigation.

benjamin
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