Re: cannot find entry symbol mainCRTStartup; defaulting to 00401000 (gnuplot_qt)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 05/28/2014 09:03 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to build gnuplot for windows with qt terminal on MinGW platform.
>
> In linking gnuplot_qt.exe, the following warnig appear:
>   warning: cannot find entry symbol mainCRTStartup; defaulting to 00401000
>
> Perhaps this is related to failure in executing qt terminal.

Maybe, but I don't think so because the program runs.  That warning is 
indicating that the linker can't find main(){} for some reason and is 
making a good guess at it.


> Terminal type set to 'qt'
> gnuplot>  plot sin(x)
> Could not connect to gnuplot_qt "qtgnuplot4832" . Starting a new one
>
> Warning: slow font initializationgnuplot>
>
> I'm now using Qt-4.8.6 build myself using the same gcc (4.8.2 MinGW-w64 win32) to build
> gnuplot and dependencies.

This sounds like the issue that came up not too long ago about TrueType 
fonts taking much longer than they should to load.  There were two 
TrueType fonts in particular found to be the problem, but I forget which.

Dan