Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] gnuplot under cygwin

[Dr. V. Z. <Dr....@or...>]

>>>>> Henry Freund writes:

    > I'm having serious problems running gnuplot under cygwin in Windows 
    > XP. I installed the full release of cygwin including the x-server as 
    > per instructions. That is, I selected the unix line feeds at the 
    > start of the install, which went normally. When I try to run gnuplot, 
    > I follow the following procedure:

    > 	1. launch X-windows
    > 	2. launch cygwin
    > 	3. type: export DISPLAY=:0.0
    > 	4. type gnuplot

    > After launching gnuplot I find that the execution is very erratic. 
    > Sometimes (quite often really) I get the following error message:

    > $ gnuplot
    >          19 [main] gnuplot 66200 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed,
    > 0x689000..0x68CF40, done 0, windows pid 65276, Win32 error 487

See

 o http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00782.html

for a possible solution to your problem. It runs fine for me by the way.

Ciao
  Volker