From: ffy@eng.cam.ac.uk (F.F. Yap) Subject: Anyone ported Octave (a Matlab clone) to Linux ? Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:02:19 GMT
Has anyone successfully compiled OCTAVE to run on Linux ?
If so, could you let me know how you did it (i.e. what changes need
to be made) ? Or could you be kind enough to upload the binary somewhere ?
Octave is a freely redistributable Matlab clone written by
John W. Eaton. I saw his announcement last week in comp.soft-sys.matlab.
Here's an abstract of what John wrote (in another posting) :
As for the availability of other Matlab-like software, I know of two
systems that are currently being developed. RLaB, written by Ian
Searle, is a language similar to Matlab, but incompatible in many
ways. Octave, which I am working on, more closely resembles Matlab.
Both are freely redistributable under the terms of the Free Software
Foundation's General Public License, and both are currently in alpha
test, which means that there are probably some bugs left to find, and
some features left to add. :-)
I posted an announcement for Octave last week, but if you missed it,
it's available via anonymos ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu in the file
/pub/octave/Announce. You can also find the sources for the last
couple of versions of Octave in the same directory.
Archie shows that RLaB is available from mizar.docs.uu.se in the
directory /pub/alpha/RLaB.