Re: qt terminal for windows binary

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

--- On Mon, 2014/5/26, Bastian Märkisch <bma...@we...> wrote:

> Am 24.05.2014 22:48, schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> > Hello
> >
> > Prof. Kakuto prepared gnuplot binary for windows with qt terminal using msvc complier
> > http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/w32/
> > gnuplot-50plrc1w32.zip
> >
> > An example snapshot are
> > http://www.geocities.jp/tmgpltwin/Files/Files.html#0057
> > qtTerminalSin.png
> >
> > I execute all.dem, the speed is faster than that of wxt terminal.
> > (On Ununtu, I found qt terminal is faster than wxt terminal.)
> >
> > BTW, in the gnuplot/config/msvc/Makefile, I found the description:
> >
> > # Build qt terminal? WARNING: the qt terminal should build, but does not work correctly.
> > # Only enable it if you want to work on fixing qt terminal on windows.
> > # (Basic problem: qt_waitforinput() uses select() to wait on stdin and a named
> > # pipe simultaneously. On Windows, this fails, because select() on Windows can
> > # only be used on network sockets)
> >
> > I asked Prof. Kakuto what is done in response to the above description.
> > He replied that no work around is done to the problem described the above.
> >
> > Does anyone fixed the problem for qt terminal for windows?
> 
> That comment is indeed out-of-date. The qt terminal is supported on 
> Windows using MSVC since 2014-02-14 (plus subsequent patches).
> 
>    Bastian
Reading the code of qt_term.cpp, the procedures that are windows specific are described
Thank you for your reply.  The comment in the msvc/Makefile should be deleted.

Thanks! 

Tatsuro