Re: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?

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

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Allin Cottrell
>> To: gnuplot-beta
>> Cc: 
>> Date: 2014/6/26, Thu 08:20
>> Subject: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?
>> 
>> 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.
>
>
> Is there any reason why you will back to 4.6.5 for 64bit?

Yes: there are some backward-incompatible changes in current CVS/gnuplot 
5.0 and I wanted to build the latest-and-greatest on the 4.6 branch.

> I have built 64bit binay using cvs source on native windows 7 64bit and 
> upload on my web.

I too have built CVS gnuplot successfully for win64.

> For 4.6, the patch is needed for 64 bit build for windows. Is the patch 
> shown the below enough for 64bit build of 4.6.5? 
> http://gnuplot.10905.n7.nabble.com/gnuplot-on-64-bit-Windows-again-td17580.html

Yep, that's my message/patch! It's what I applied to the 4.6.5 source. It 
enabled me to build the program without any errors from the compiler, but 
as I said it doesn't run properly.

Allin Cottrell