[Fwd: Re: Windows gnuplot 4.1 libpng problems]

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> I installed MS Visual Studio only because I wanted to be able to
> compile gnuplot - I'm just a very very basic user (programmer).
>=20
> 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).

The PDF library you used for linking is a demo of the commercial
libpdf package. Alternatively you could use the binary and lib package
provided at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pdflib-lite.htm
I just tested it very quickly, so don't blame me if it doesn't owrk ;-)

>=20
> 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.

I am sorry, but my build does not contain wxt.

>=20
> 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.
>=20

There's a _huge_ number of warnings with VC 6 already.


Bastian


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Bastian M=E4rkisch
Physikalisches Institut, Universit=E4t Heidelberg