Re: names of gnuplot Win32 binaries

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

> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I haven't been paying much
> attention to this thread. Is 'gnuplot.exe' simply what you get when
> you use the *nix configure/Makefile in a cygwin environment?

You get gnuplot.exe either by "./configure; make" way (then this executable 
has the X11 terminal) or by #defining WGP_CONSOLE and using any makefile for 
Windows compiler (makefile.{mgw,cyg,nt}).

> And what makefile generates the 'wgnuplot_pipes.exe' ?  I always
> use makefile.cyg for generating windows binaries and I've never
> seen this mysterious thing appear :-)

wgnuplot_pipes.exe is compiled the same way as wgnuplot.exe but with PIPES=1 
#defined and then renamed to wgnuplot_pipes.exe. I have avoided the manual 
rename by adding TARGET into makefile.mgw last week; right now I did the 
same also for makefile.cyg.

> Maybe a general cleanup of the various {makefile,config}.??? in config/
> is called for.

Please contribute by trying to compile gnuplot on as many compilers as you 
can and commenting properly in these files.

> Or at least a README that explains what they all do.  This is by no means 
> clear from their names.  For example, makefile.nt is for VisualC 6.x but 
> who would guess this from the name?

There is README with exactly those information there! I've just slightly 
updated it.

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