I have been unable to get Cygwin Octave to run:
vanzandt:~ $ octave
vanzandt:~ $
Here's my version info:
vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -c -h cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK
vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -c -h octave
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
octave 3.0.3-1 OK
I see Octave 3.2 has been packaged for Cygwin 1.7, but apparently Cygwin 1.7
hasn't been released. I have certainly taken no special steps to get a
prerelease version. Octave is the only Cygwin program I've noticed problems
with, so I'm reluctant to go to a prelease version of Cygwin.
Apparently octave cannot find two shared libraries:
vanzandt:~ $ which octave
/bin/octave
vanzandt:~ $ file /bin/octave
/bin/octave: symbolic link to `octave-3.0.3.exe'
vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck /bin/octave-3.0.3.exe
C:\cygwin\bin/octave-3.0.3.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\cygoctinterp.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygcruft.dll
Error: could not find cygblas.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
Error: could not find cyglapack.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygoctave.dll
Error: could not find cygblas.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygfftw3-3.dll
Error: could not find cyglapack.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline6.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-9.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cyghdf5-0.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
Those libraries actually are installed, as part of the lapack package:
vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -c lapack
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
lapack 3.0-8 OK
vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -l lapack|grep cyglapack
/usr/lib/lapack/cyglapack.dll
vanzandt:~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/lapack/cyg*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 jrv Users 591360 Mar 24 2006 /usr/lib/lapack/cygblas.dll
-rwxr-x---+ 1 jrv Users 5003776 Mar 24 2006 /usr/lib/lapack/cyglapack.dll
I believe Cygwin is supposed to automatically ensure that the correct version
of each shared library is installed and loaded, but it looks like some part of
that has broken down.
Do I have the right version of lapack installed? (setup.exe also offers 3.0-5)
Is there a manual way of getting the loader to look in /usr/lib/lapack? E.g.
is there a Cygwin equivalent to the Linux program ldconfig? I tried setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and also installing symlinks from /c/Cygwin/bin like this:
vanzandt:/c/cygwin/bin $ ls -l cygla*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jrv Domain Users 29 Jul 13 10:13 cyglapack.dll ->
/usr/lib/lapack/cyglapack.dll
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
- Jim Van Zandt
-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Atzeri [mailto:marco_atz...@yahoo.it]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:05 AM
To: James R. Van Zandt
Cc: Van Zandt, Jim
Subject: Re: R: built-in variables
--- Dom 12/7/09, James R. Van Zandt ha scritto:
> Da: James R. Van Zandt
> Oggetto: Re: R: built-in variables
> A: "Marco Atzeri"
> Cc:
> Data: Domenica 12 luglio 2009, 23:51
>
> Marco -
>
...
> for the last several months, I have not been able
> to get
> Cygwin Octave to actually run. After I type "octave"
> at the bash
> prompt, there's a pause of a second or two, then another
> bash prompt.
> Even "octave --help" does nothing. This is with an
> rsync terminal
> running under XP. Let me know if I can supply any
> other information
> to help track this down.
>
> I've taken octave-maintainers off the list as this isn't a
> generic
> Octave problem. If there's a Cygwin list I should be
> using, please
> let me know about that too.
>
> - Jim Van
> Zandt
>
Hi Jim,
for generic cygwin issue the cygwin at cygwin dot com is the
usual mailing list to report problem and ask for support.
See also:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
If octave don't start is a clear symptom of a missing library
try
$ cygcheck octave
you should have
$ cygcheck octave
Found: C:\cygwin2\bin\octave.exe
-> C:\cygwin2\bin\octave-3.2.0.exe
C:\cygwin2\bin\octave-3.2.0.exe
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygoctinterp.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygcruft.dll
C:\cygwin2\lib\lapack\cygblas-0.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
C:\cygwin2\lib\lapack\cyglapack-0.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cyggfortran-3.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygstdc++-6.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygoctave.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygfftw3-3.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygfftw3f-3.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygqrupdate-0.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygreadline6.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygncurses-9.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygX11-6.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygxcb-1.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygXau-6.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cyghdf5-0.dll
C:\cygwin2\bin\cygz.dll
otherwise missing libraries will be reported.
Please also note that
octave-3.2 has been built for cygwin-1.7, so
I assume you have a cygwin-1.7 installation in place.
If you check on the mailing list archive,
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/
You will see that incomplete cygwin installation
is not an unusual problem.
Is octave the only application not working
for you ?
Regards
Marco
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