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Re: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows?
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From: Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...> - 2014-06-30 09:05:43
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----- Original Message ----- > From: Allin Cottrell > To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA > Cc: gnuplot-bet > Date: 2014/6/29, Sun 23:05 > Subject: Re: gnuplot 4.6.5 for 64-bit Windows? > > 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 http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/gp46/gp465_64.zip (Sorry the previous mail http:// is mistyped as http;//) Did you try that the above worked on your windows PC? Tatsuro |
