Re: GNUplot "not responding" Windows 7 fix!!!

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

In addtion to the cairo base terminals (pngcairo, pdfcairo and wxt),  the gd based terminals (png, gif
and jpeg) based terminals are linked to the fontconfig libraries.

Please see the note on the page 

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On 2009-12-03, it is found that 'bin' directory (folder) is special directry when executables
(wgnuplot.exe, gnuplot.exe, ...) are saved there. Now the directory name where the executables are
saved is 'binary'. The directory 'bin' is usually used for directory structure in unix softwares. I
appreciate Petr Mikulik for his indication. 

If the excutable are saved in the 'bin' directory, one should move all contents in binary/share and
binary/etc in current distribution to move to bin/../share and bin/../etc (i.e. the 'share' and 'etc'
directories should be placed in the same hierarchy as the 'bin' directory). 

This special treatment for 'bin' directry is useful for if you use gnuplot installing into softwares
which have unixy directory structures, for example, GNU octave.
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Regards

Tatsuro
--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am building binaries windows 7 home premium 64bit.
> I cannot reproduce the phenomena on my PC.
> (I do not install them in the 'C:\Program Files' but in the different named folder.)
> 
> 
> If you rename 'binary' to 'bin', the procedure will cause fontconfig error on cairo based
> terminals. 
> In the case, please move bin/etc folder in the same hierarchy as 'bin'.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro 
> 
> --- Victor Jenicek  wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tatsuro!!
> > 
> > I've been seeing your forum posts quite frequently this afternoon 
> > because I tried getting GNUplot to work on a Windows 7 32-bit 
> > Professional machine.
> > 
> > First I tried the latest installers from SourceForge and then I 
> > downloaded your gp45-winbin.zip. I always extracted the gnuplot folder 
> > to C:\Program Files , and it never worked... the problem was always the 
> > same: after launching wgnuplot.exe or gnuplot.exe and inputting command 
> > plot sin(x), the plot window launches but then the program stops 
> > responding, even after 1-2 minutes of waiting.
> > 
> > But I found a fix on some forum for Octave!
> > 
> > If you rename the "binary" folder in "gnuplot" folder to "bin", it 
> > works!! The function sin(x) is plotted successfully, and I tried some 
> > other functions, like sin(x)/x, and it works too!
> > 
> > I haven't tried this fix with the latest gnuplot version from 
> > Sourceforge, but I thought I should bring this to your attention anyway.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Victor
> > 
> 
> 
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