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From: Erik L. <eri...@gm...> - 2025-11-09 18:59:35
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Dear Ethan, Apologies for overlooking this message! I am not an expert on Windows / ARM64; my focus is on macOS binaries (although indeed for both x86-64 and ARM64). Sorry that I cannot be of help. Kind regards, Erik On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote: > I am forwarding a offer to help add ARM64 + Windows support to gnuplot. > Since those are not areas I deal with, perhaps someone else on the > developers > list (Bastian? Tatsuro? Erik?) can respond to this or suggest how to > proceed. > > If "official support" from our side is out of the question, but they are > willing > to prepare and host a contributed binary for public download, we could > offer > to add a link on the "Downloads offered by others" section of the gnuplot > web site. > > - Ethan > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Request for official gnuplot support on Windows ARM64 > Date: Monday, 29 September 2025, 01:52:42 PDT > From: Mugunthan Selvanayagam <mug...@mu...> > To: merritt@u.washington.edu <merritt@u.washington.edu> > CC: Gaurav Goel <gg...@qt...>, Vishnu Vardhan Kasiliya > Sudarsan <vka...@qt...>, Sumit Sharma < > ss...@qt...>, Mayank Agrawal <ma...@qt...>, Vinod > Kumar Sukumar <vin...@mu...>, Thirumalai Nagalingam > <thi...@mu...> > > Hi Merritt > > I am Mugundan from MulticoreWare https://multicorewareinc.com, India. We > are collaborating with Qualcomm on enabling native applications and > libraries for the Snapdragon X Elite Windows on ARM (WoA) platform. > During our initial testing, we observed that the x64 Windows GNU Plot > installer fails on Windows ARM64 due to x64-only restrictions. By making a > minor modification to the Inno Setup installer script, we were able to > rebuild the installer to function correctly under x64 emulation on Windows > ARM devices. We would like to upstream this change so that users on Windows > on ARM can run GNU Plot via emulation. This would immediately make GNU Plot > accessible to a broader set of Windows ARM64 users and benefit the user > community. > > We also noticed the availability of initial ARM64 test binaries, and we > would like to know if there is any information regarding the estimated > timeline for an official release. If there are any blockers, our team would > be happy to assist and contribute patches to support both the installer and > native ARM64 builds. Having an official Windows ARM64 support for GNU Plot > would be a valuable addition for this growing platform, and we would be > glad to contribute toward making it possible. > > Best regards, > > Mugundan > > MulticoreWare, India > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnuplot-beta mailing list > gnu...@li... > Membership management via: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta > |