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Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error)

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

Hello

I have met a trouble at  "make installer"

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(cd ./dist; /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Inno\ Setup\ 5/iscc gnuplot.iss)
Inno Setup 5 Command-Line Compiler
Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Jordan Russell. All rights reserved.
Portions Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Martijn Laan
Inno Setup Preprocessor
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Alex Yackimoff. All rights reserved.

Compiler engine version: Inno Setup 5.5.9 (a)

[ISPP] Preprocessing.
[ISPP] Preprocessed.

Error on line 1 in D:\usr\Tatsu\msys2mingw64_530\gnuplot\gnuplotcvs\gnuplot\config\mingw\dist\gnuplot.iss: Text is not inside a section.
Compile aborted.
Makefile:1029: recipe for target 'installer' failed
make: *** [installer] Error 2

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I have cleanly installed windows 10 and use the recent version of Inno Setup 5.
Is this related?


"make zip" goes well without issue.


Any suggestions?

Tatsuro

Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))

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

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 

> To: gnuplot-beta; bmaerkisch
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/4/10, Sun 08:51
> Subject: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error)
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have met a trouble at  "make installer"
> 
> **************************************************************
> (cd ./dist; /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Inno\ Setup\ 
> 5/iscc gnuplot.iss)
> Inno Setup 5 Command-Line Compiler
> Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Jordan Russell. All rights reserved.
> Portions Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Martijn Laan
> Inno Setup Preprocessor
> Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Alex Yackimoff. All rights reserved.
> 
> Compiler engine version: Inno Setup 5.5.9 (a)
> 
> [ISPP] Preprocessing.
> [ISPP] Preprocessed.
> 
> Error on line 1 in 
> D:\usr\Tatsu\msys2mingw64_530\gnuplot\gnuplotcvs\gnuplot\config\mingw\dist\gnuplot.iss: 
> Text is not inside a section.
> Compile aborted.
> Makefile:1029: recipe for target 'installer' failed
> make: *** [installer] Error 2
> 
> **************************************************************
> 
> I have cleanly installed windows 10 and use the recent version of Inno Setup 5.
> Is this related?
> 
> 
> "make zip" goes well without issue.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
I found a trash character at the top of gnuplot.iss.
(I do not know why it exists.)
I deleted it and "make installer" worked without problem.

Tatsuro

Re: Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 11 April 2016 10:46:33 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > 
> I found a trash character at the top of gnuplot.iss.
> (I do not know why it exists.)
> I deleted it and "make installer" worked without problem.

The initial character was the Windows <BOM> marker (Byte Order Mark)
that some Windows programs place at the start of a file to indicate that the
file contains unicode (e.g. UTF-8 or UTF-16) text.  Although the original intent
of the BOM was to make files more portable, in practice it has the opposite
effect  (as you found out)!

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

I have removed it from the cvs copy of win/gnuplot.iss

	Ethan

Re: Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))

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

> From: sfeam
> To: gnuplot-beta Tatsuro MATSUOKA

> Cc: bmaerkisch
> Date: 2016/4/11, Mon 12:22
> Subject: Re: Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))
> 
> On Monday, 11 April 2016 10:46:33 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  > 
>>  I found a trash character at the top of gnuplot.iss.
>>  (I do not know why it exists.)
>>  I deleted it and "make installer" worked without problem.
> 
> The initial character was the Windows <BOM> marker (Byte Order Mark)
> that some Windows programs place at the start of a file to indicate that the
> file contains unicode (e.g. UTF-8 or UTF-16) text.  Although the original intent
> of the BOM was to make files more portable, in practice it has the opposite
> effect  (as you found out)!
> 
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
> 
> I have removed it from the cvs copy of win/gnuplot.iss
> 
>     Ethan

I have confirmed the fix in the current cvs.
Thanks!

Tatsuro