Re: Windows gnuplot 4.1 libpng problems

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 7/17/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
> > Hmm. And the problem Mojca was having with locale settings also seems t=
o
> > arise from using an earlier version of Visual Studio.
>
> If anything, it's more likely too *new* a version he's using.  VC++
> version 6 is out of date, by MS's reckoning.  As far as they're
> concerned, no application developer is supposed to be programming in C
> any more.  We're all supposed to have switched from (their slight
> bastardization of) C to their much worse bastardizations of Java (C#) or
> C++, by now.
>
> > Does this mean we should add a caveat somewhere in the docs that if
> > you are building on Windows with the MicroSoft tool chain, it
> > requires VS 6.0?
>
> I don't think we have sufficient evidence to make the statement that
> strong.

I installed MS Visual Studio only because I wanted to be able to
compile gnuplot - I'm just a very very basic user (programmer).

I just wanted to approve that I have the same "crashing-problem" with
PNG driver from the very beginning (but I have not enough experience
to find out what's going wrong and I thought that I was simply too
stupid to be able to compile gnuplot with GD and PDF support - PDF
works OK though, but I get a huge watermark in the background with the
name of the PDF library which makes the PDF driver useless even if it
was more advanced).

I'm just wating (hiping) that someone will compile gnuplot for me with
png and wxt support built-in since I wasn't able to use/compile either
fo them.

The version 2005 is also known as the version "8", so it seems that my
version is "too new". During compiling I also get tons of warnings in
the sense of "deprecated function", but there should be some switch
somewhere to turn this off - it complains for such basic functions as
scanf.

Mojca