Re: MSWin issues holding up 4.4.rc1

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

> > > I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
> > > I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
> > > someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
> > > share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
> > > where I'm getting errors.
> > > 
> > OK
> > Please give me some time to write tips and to upload the gd and wxWidget libraries built by myself.
> > (Other dependency libraries are able to downloaded from the web site of GTK for windows.)
> 
> Did you manage to get mingw under control?
> Are you still planning to have a look at the listed bug reports?

A little prod can do wonders for one's motivation sometimes... thanks
Ethan!

I had sort of let this linger a bit long, so I finally got off my duff
and had another go. After a lengthy process of beating libgd (2.0.35)
into submission, I think I have managed to successfully compile gnuplot.
I don't have HCW, so I just commented that command out of the makefile
for the time being.

Notably, "make install" fails:
	$ make install
	./doc2rtf ../docs/gnuplot.doc win/gnuplot.rtf
	# hcw -c -e win/wgnuplot.hpj
	mkdir -p /home/xxxxxxxx/install
	cp gnuplot.exe /home/xxxxxxxx/install/gnuplot.exe
	cp: cannot stat `gnuplot.exe': No such file or directory
	make: *** [install] Error 1

This appears to be a minor issue, as pgnuplot.exe and wgnuplot.exe both
exist. I ran wgnuplot.exe and was able to do a quick plot and splot. A
quick svg plot seems to have worked. However, a quick attempt at a png
plot led to an application crash at offset 0x000a01ee. The exception
was 0xc0000005. (SVG and PNG are probably the two most common formats I 
use.) I'm not sure if this is a libgd issue, or what.

Debugging (outside of MS tools) is sorta new to me, so guidance and
suggestions are welcome. This was the latest CVS that I checked out as
of about 10 minutes before writing this email.

Tait