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

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

--- On Thu, 2014/5/29, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for your reply.
gnuplot_qt.cpp has apparently a main() function.

<snip>
#include "QtGnuplotApplication.h"
#include <QtCore>
#include <signal.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
<snip>



> 
> 
> > 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.

Mmmm. Does anyone remember the issue?

Anyway thanks for your pointer.

Tatsuro