Win32 Gnuplot Compilation

[David Ko <dk...@uc...>]

Hello all,

I've recently been trying to compile Gnuplot in MinGW, and I've gotten 
everything working except that it crashes when I try to write a png file. The 
Windows binary I downloaded from gnuplot.info works fine, and I have a couple 
questions for the Win32 binary maintainer:

What build environment was used to create the Win32 binaries? I've tried MinGW 
and Visual Studio .NET thus far, and everything dies when trying to write a png 
file. (i.e. 'set terminal png; set output "test.png"; plot x' <- dies here) My 
latest attempt was with the 'config/makefile.mgw' provided makefile in MinGW.

What version of libgd was used? I assume that the latest version (2.0.35) was 
used, but the makefile.mgw that came w/ gnuplot referred to v.1.8 as "new". 
I've tried using the libgd library built from scratch and the provided prebuilt 
libraries. I've also tried the v1.8 library. Gnuplot behaves identically for 
all of them (crash on png write). 

Any other tips/ideas for me? I'm not really a windows person by any means.

Thanks for your time!

- David Ko