Re: gnuplot.exe hangs instead of exiting on Windows 7

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 01:14:05 pm Juhász Péter wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:37:09 am Juhász Péter wrote:
> > > I didn't test with his previous build (I don't know where to get it).
> > > 
> > > However, I did test the current (03/23) build on a Vista system and it
> > > didn't exhibit this problem (it exited normally). It starts slowly,
> > > though: there is a 5-10 second delay at startup.
> > > 
> > > Péter Juhász
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I can no longer run the current Windows build
> > under linux+wine.   
> > 
> > gnuplot.exe hangs on entry, after printing 
> >   gnuplot changed the codepage of this console to 437 to match
> >   the graph window. Some characters might only display correctly
> >   if you change the font to a non-raster type.
> > I am dubious that setting the codepage to 437 is the right thing
> > to do under linux+wine (earlier builds seemed happy to accept
> > input from my UTF-8 environment), but I can't really test this
> > because it is hung.
> > 
> > wgnuplot.exe gives me a text window to type in, but if I try to plot
> > anything it exits with an error message   
> >    "This version of GLib requires NT-based Windows"
> > This message comes from libglib-2.0-0.dll
> > 
> > 	Ethan
> 
> To add a further data point:
> 
> gnuplot.exe with linux+wine prints the gnuplot> prompt for me, and
> allows to type in one command, but hangs after that. I don't know if
> this is the same as you get.

Yes. Same thing.
It does accept and executes commands in non-interactive mode, e.g.
    wine gnuplot.exe -e "plot sin(x)" -persist


> wgnuplot.exe works (plotting is possible with wxt and windows terminals,
> very little delay on startup and clean exit).

Now works for me also, using a different installation of wine.