Re: compiling gnuplot on Windows & mac/linux

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Petr Mikulik wrote:

> By what? Isn't there some way to know whether that dir should be called 
> "Program Files", "Programy", "Programme", etc?

On the more modern systems (Win2K and up, I think), there is an 
environment variable %ProgramFiles%.  The problem with that would be 
that it reads something like "c:\Program Files" (backslash, drive 
letter), whereas MSYS (nowadays to be assumed as the underlying Unix 
substitution layer for MinGW) would want "/c/Program Files", and Cygwin 
"/cygdrive/c/Program Files".  And it's not really clear that getting 
'make install' fully right is even worth trying on Windows.

> Do you really need it? I "crosscompile" gnuplot for Windows on Linux by 
> means of MingW: I run the wine console (wcmd), and then do what is written 
> for mingw: go to src/, type "make -f ../config/makefile.mgw", and it is 
> done.

That's not really cross-compiling.  Cross-compiling would mean you build 
a version of GCC running directly on Linux that builds Win32 executables 
based on the MinGW libraries and headers.