gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

I wonder if anyone has managed to build wgnuplot.exe of gnuplot 
4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows, and if so, what the "trick" is?

I tried back-porting my patch for gnuplot CVS to 4.6.5 and it built 
without error (I should say, this is cross-building on Linux using 
mingw, which has worked fine for CVS gnuplot), but the binary 
behaves strangely. In batch mode -- give it a script and ask it to 
produce a plot file -- it works fine. But in interactive mode this 
is what I'm seeing (on 64-bit Windows 8):

* If invoked as wgnuplot.exe without any arguments it opens 
fleetingly and then immediately exits.

* If invoked with the argument "-" (which, BTW, I don't see 
documented anywhere, maybe my bad?), as in

wgnuplot.exe -

it stays open but behaves oddly: the overall GUI looks OK, the menus 
work, but there's no prompt and while you can type stuff, nothing 
appears in the "console" or text area.

It took me a while to figure out that typed commands do actually 
work: if, for example you type, blindly, "plot sin(x)<Enter>" you 
get a perfectly good plot of sin(x).

Anyway, any notions of how to put this to rights? Thanks.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University