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Bastian Märkisch - 2016-03-09

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Tatsuro MATSUOKA - 2016-03-09

Great! The instruction is helpful for those who would like try to build gnuplot for windows.

I wrote latest information on the bottom of this thread.

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Tatsuro MATSUOKA - 2016-03-09

Compilation of qtconversion.cpp might fail due to isnan(). If that is the case simply add an #include <cmath> and change the call to std::isnan(). A fix for this should be in the next release.

However, on my build system Msys2+MinGW w64 gcc-5.3.0 on Original, std::isnan() gives error

g++ -c -I/e/Programs/gplibs64_gcc530/include -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DUSE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -DDEFAULTTERM=\"wxt\" -DHAVE_FINDVERSION_H -m64 -O2 -pipe -I. -I../../src -I../../term/ -D_Windows -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPIPES -DWGP_CONSOLE -DCONSOLE_SWITCH_CP -DUSE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1 -DGNUPLOT_SHARE_DIR=\"share\" -DDEVELOPMENT_VERSION -DUSE_MOUSE=1 -DWIN_IPC -I/c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/HTML\ Help\ Workshop/include -DHAVE_LIBGD -DHAVE_LIBPNG -DHAVE_LIBGD -DHAVE_GD_H -DHAVE_GD_GIF -DGIF_ANIMATION -DHAVE_GD_PNG -DHAVE_GD_JPEG -DHAVE_GD_TTF -DHAVE_CAIROPDF -DWXWIDGETS -DQTTERM -DQT_NO_OPENGL -DHAVE_LUA -DHAVE_LIBCACA -DHAVE_ICONV -DHAVE_LIBCERF -DNEED_CEXP -I/e/Programs/gplibs64_gcc530/include -I/e/Programs/gplibs64_gcc530/lib/wx/include/msw-unicode-3.0 -I/e/Programs/gplibs64_gcc530/include/wx-3.0 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -DWXMSW -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/Qt -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtCore -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtGui -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtWidgets -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtNetwork -I/e/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtSvg -DQTGNUPLOT_DATA_DIR=\"share/qt\" -MMD -MT 'qt_term.$(O)' -MF qt_term.d -o qt_term.co ../../src/qtterminal/qt_term.cpp
In file included from E:/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtCore/qmath.h:49:0,
from E:/Programs/Qt/5.3.2_mgw64_530/include/QtCore/QtCore:65,
from ../../src/qtterminal/qt_term.cpp:51:
../../src/qtterminal/qt_conversion.cpp: In function 'QImage qt_imageToQImage(int, int, coordval, t_imagecolor)':
../../src/qtterminal/qt_conversion.cpp:129:14: error: expected unqualified-id before '(' token
if (std::isnan(image))

and isnan() passes. However, on gcc-4.9.2 std::isnan(*image)) passed.

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Tatsuro MATSUOKA - 2016-03-21

I have build gnuplot for windows according to your instruction.
(development source 5.1.0 2016-03-17)
All dependecies can be get from one repository.
That is GREAT!.

One point:
I have met the following screen (attachment file) using wxt terminal.

For my binaries distributed, I attached dirty patch to suppress the
Wxwedgets Debug Alert in source level.
However, this is hopefully avoided.

Do you have any good idea to avoid this?

wxWidgetsDebugAlert.png

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- Matthew Halverson - 2016-03-24
  
  I'm seeing this same problem and gave up on trying to build with wxWidgets. These build instructions are great for testing out the development version on windows, but I will stick to using the officially released binaries for anything important.
  
  Still, I would love to see a solution to this.
  
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA - 2016-03-25

Quick hack

1778: #if !defined(DEVELOPMENT_VERSION) && wxCHECK_VERSION(2, 9, 0)

in src/wxterminal/wxt_gui.cpp to

1778: #if 1

solves the problem

I will considrer proper #if description
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- Bastian Märkisch - 2016-03-25
  
  The reason why I compile this in only for a "release" build was that I assume that that warning is there for a reason. So maybe we really need a proper fix.
  
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  - Tatsuro MATSUOKA - 2016-03-25
    
    Thanks for the reply. It seems that simple change of #if description is not a sufficient. It will be better you consider the fix.
    
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Morten MacFly - 2020-10-25

Sorry for bumping an old thread. I followed the guidelines, but this step:
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gd
...does not work for me. It fails with an error "target not found" and also, the package is not listed here:
https://packages.msys2.org/package/
Is this lib removed/obsolete in MSys2? But without the png/gif/jpeg terminals Gnuplut makes no sense for me... How do you guys work-around?

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- Hans-Bernhard Broeker - 2020-10-25
  
  Well, it's a bit much to expect four-and-a-half year old draft to still apply letter for letter today.
  MSYS2 repackaged libgd as 'libgd' instead of 'gd' at some point.
  
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  - Morten MacFly - 2020-10-25
    
    Thanks for the hint, this worked! But I am stuck now with PDFlib lite which does not compile for me on MSys2, even after patching the build system. I kind of have given up, unfortunately.
    
    I was hoping I could find a way to self-compile and thought that this recent entry: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/support-requests/256/#4f69/fba3/6faa/3607 was referring to here for self-compilation. Seems not. Maybe there is a more recent guideline somewhere?
    
    BTW: I used to self-compile Gnuplot every now and then a few years back, so I am not totally unexperienced. But it seems to have gotten too difficult for me, somehow.
    
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    - Hans-Bernhard Broeker - 2020-10-25
      
      PDFlib is not really necessary for anything, as long as you have the Cairo PDF terminal instead, which is almost certainly superior.
      
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Change list at July 25, 2023

External tool
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler
https://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads_mscomp.html
(Site on Microsoft has been closed.)

Tools or libraries for build

Some required tools

pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain msys/dos2unix

cairo / pango

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo mingw-w64-x86_64-pango

wxWidgets

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-wxwidgets3.0-msw

libgd

 pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libgd

lua

 pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-lua

libcerf (Building from source is no longer required)

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libcerf

pdflib

# Usually it is not required. Use pdfcairo terminal instead
# Usual binary distribution does not include this feature.)

Qt
Least components for reuired for gnuplot build.

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-base mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-svg mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-tools

Full install (Huge)

pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5

libcaca

# Usual binary distribution does not include this feature.
# pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libcaca

For version 6

libwebp

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libwebp

openspecfun
https://github.com/JuliaMath/openspecfun

git clone https://github.com/JuliaMath/openspecfun.git
cd openspecfun
make
gendef libopenspecfun.dll
 dlltool -d libopenspecfun.def -l libopenspecfun.dll.a
 dlltool -d libopenspecfun.def -l libopenspecfun_dll.a
 cp -p libopenspecfun.dll.a /mingw64/lib
 cp -p libopenspecfun_dll.a /mingw64/lib
 cp -p libopenspecfun.dll /mingw64/bin

opensepcfun does not include "cexint" which is required for expint.
See https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2475/

For development version or sources on git branch

git

pacman -S git

Documantation
In order to get up-to-date gnuplot manual, one should use the LaTeX.
TeX (TeXLive on Msys2 is recommended) and ghostscipt are required.

Least requirements for gnuplot documentation

pacman -S \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-core \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-fonts-extra \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-fonts-recommended \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-font-utils \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-formats-extra \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-lang-cjk \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-lang-greek \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-latex-extra \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-latex-recommended \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-luatex \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-pictures \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-plain-generic \
mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-science

# For documentation of Japanese Language
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-lang-japanese

# ghostscrpt
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-ghostscript

TeXLive full install (Huge)

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-texlive-full

LaTeX style file "picins.sty" is requred for latex compilation.
Download picins.zip from
https://ctan.org/pkg/picins
extract picins.zip and copy the "picins" directory to the /mingw64/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex
and execute

mktexlsr

Packaging tools

Inno Setup (Installer packaging tool)
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php

p7zip / zip

pacman -S p7zip zip

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