Re: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?

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

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Allin Cottrell
>> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
>> Cc: gnuplot-beta
>> Date: 2014/6/26, Thu 22:18
>> Subject: Re: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?
>> 
>> 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.
>
> Thank you for the information. 
>
> I applied the patch and successfully built gnuplot 4.6.5 using MinGW-w64 (4.8.3)
> (+ msys) on windows 7 64bit
>
> I executed the wgnuplot from command line.
> It seemed work without problem.
>
> See
> http://www.geocities.jp/tmgpltwin/Files/Files.html#0062
> 20140627wgp465.png
>
>
> wnguplot started up without '-'. And messages were represented normally.
> In addition, echo backs to key stokes worked without problem. 

Thanks, then there must be something wrong with my build process, or in my 
application of the 64-bit patch.

Allin Cottrell