Re: Request for official gnuplot support on Windows ARM64

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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