Re: How to build new html help on mac?

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 20:11, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
>
> --- Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> Great, thanks a lot. I will try to figure out how to compile gnuplot
>> on windows despite some of very bad experiences from the past.
>
> Is it better to prepare a dependency libraries archive file for build on MinGW?
> If you would like to use it, I can prepare it and upload it on my web site.
>
> With dependency libraries, build on windows is not so hard.

That would be perfect and something that I always wanted to have. (It
would be great to have that for other platforms as well, but for
windows it is much more important than for others.)

Out of curiosity: what don't these files (such as binaries for windows
compiled from CVS) simply end up on sourceforge, even if they are just
nightly builds and not official release yet?

Thanks,
    Mojca

PS: When I compile TeX (LuaTeX, XeTeX, metapost) it is trivial since
all the libraries are contained in source repository and all libraries
are statically built. This means more burden on developer, but
consequently a trivial task for anyone who wants to build the sources.
We have several people building it on 12 different
platforms/architectures. All we/they need to do is run a single
command (so even beginners can do it) and it then works out-of-the-box
for anyone on almost any given OS and processor (except for ancient
operating systems). This is something that I really miss in gnuplot.
No matter what I do, it is always some incompatibility somewhere in
the long list of libraries that makes gnuplot crash in one way or
another.