Re: qt terminal for windows binary

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Am 24.05.2014 22:48, schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> Hello
>
> Prof. Kakuto prepared gnuplot binary for windows with qt terminal using msvc complier
> http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/w32/
> gnuplot-50plrc1w32.zip
>
> An example snapshot are
> http://www.geocities.jp/tmgpltwin/Files/Files.html#0057
> qtTerminalSin.png
>
> I execute all.dem, the speed is faster than that of wxt terminal.
> (On Ununtu, I found qt terminal is faster than wxt terminal.)
>
> BTW, in the gnuplot/config/msvc/Makefile, I found the description:
>
> # Build qt terminal? WARNING: the qt terminal should build, but does not work correctly.
> # Only enable it if you want to work on fixing qt terminal on windows.
> # (Basic problem: qt_waitforinput() uses select() to wait on stdin and a named
> # pipe simultaneously. On Windows, this fails, because select() on Windows can
> # only be used on network sockets)
>
> I asked Prof. Kakuto what is done in response to the above description.
> He replied that no work around is done to the problem described the above.
>
> Does anyone fixed the problem for qt terminal for windows?

That comment is indeed out-of-date. The qt terminal is supported on 
Windows using MSVC since 2014-02-14 (plus subsequent patches).

   Bastian

>
> As a note, Prof. Kakuto uses qt-5.3.0 for qt terminal building.
>
> I am now trying to revise gnuplot/config/mingw/Makefile and support the qt terminal on mingw platform.
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>