Stuck with compiling 4.1 on windows (again)

[Marko B. <nom...@sp...>]

Hello there,

a few days before I asked a question concernig building gnuplot CVS
version on windows. These problems are solved, but I still did not mange
to build it succesfully.

Until now I did:

- compile libpng and zlib
- compile libpdf
- put the dll's in \windows\system32
- copy ..\config\config.nt ..\src\config.h
- run vcvars32.bat
- run nmake -f ..\config\makefile.nt (from ..\src)

as it was stated in makefile.nt

But nmake stops (after having assembled the linkopt1.msw) at calling the
first link command. It says:

link /subsystem:windows /...[other stuff]... /out:wgnuplot.exe
@linkopt1.msw
LINK: fatal error: Cannot open input file "alloc.obj"

I'm not an computer science expert, so my understanding of this subject
is limited. So do I miss something here? As far as I know "alloc.obj"
has to be created out of "alloc.h" and "alloc.c" which reside in the
same directory. But isn't that the concern of the make subsystem?

Can someone please point me in the right direction? I really need
version 4.1 due to the datastrings facility. This is an awesome feature
making handling of bar-graphs just hassle-free.

Thanks in advance.

Marko Brandes.