Re: Version 4.0&4.2 ---terminal PDF, JPEG not be accessible in WinXP environment

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > I would be really glad to know how to do that properly, but I tried at
> > least four different ways:
> > 
> > - compiling with MS Visual Studio -> declared unsupported
> > - cross-compiling from mac/linux -> you're on your own
> > - compiling with MinGW on Windows with pdflib from source -> no
> > success compiling the library
> > - compiling with MinGW on Windows with pdflib dll -> gnuplot crashes
> > when writing to file
> > (similar for gd)
> > 
> > and none of them worked. I'm no expert in compiling, but it's not fair
> > to say that "compiling is really easy". After all: it would be really
> > great to have the official windows binary with GD and PDF (and wxt?)
> > support built in.

The PDF terminal cannot be distributed in the executable for license 
reasons of PDFlib Lite.

The gif and png terminals are included in the official distribution; 
however, jpeg generation was not switched on by default. I've just change 
this in cvs. It compiles fine.

(BTW, I compile the windows executable by Mingw via wine on OpenSUSE Linux.)

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