Re: Windows gnuplot 4.1 libpng problems

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 11:43 am, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Andrew Brampton wrote:
>=20
> > Now the only difference I seem to be doing to Bastian, is that I'm usin=
g=20
> > Visual Studio 2003, instead of Visual C++ 6.
>=20
> is the real problem.  IIRC, Boutell states rather strongly that his=20
> prebuilt DLL doesn't work on anything but VC++ 6.

Hmm. And the problem Mojca was having with locale settings also seems to
arise from using an earlier version of Visual Studio.  Does this mean we
should add a caveat somewhere in the docs that if you are building on Windo=
ws
with the MicroSoft tool chain, it requires VS 6.0?   =20
In "Known Bugs", maybe?  Or in the FAQ?

Can Windows users download updated C libraries, or do they have to buy
a whole new package?

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742