From: jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu ("John W. Eaton") Subject: Making gnuplot's windows terminal type work with gnu-win32 b17 10 Dec 1996 00:50:14 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612100319.VAA00675.cygnus.gnu-win32@tillamook-sharp.eaton.net> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Has anyone else made gnuplot work with a Windows terminal driver? I am trying to compile gnuplot 3.6 beta 315 with b17 on a Windows 95 system. I was able to do the following: * untar distribution * edit configure to substitute /dev/nul for /dev/null * ./configure * edit Makefile to delete -DREADLINE=1 from DEFS The version of readline distributed with gnuplot is not GNU readline and it doesn't seem to work with the gnu win32 stuff. Since I really just want to be able to execute gnuplot from Octave using a procbuf, this doesn't matter much to me. * make This works (!), and results in a binary that will run. I can generate output for ugly ascii-only graphics on dumb terminals, lots of plotters (well, I haven't tried, but I suspect that terminal drivers for most of the devices will work), and PostScript files. Using gnuplot from Octave also works, so I think I am almost there. However, I would like to have a terminal definition that would bring up a separate plot window, so I modified term.h to include the terminal definition for the MS-Windows terminal type. Much to my surprise, it compiled without any warnings, but it failed to link. Then I realized that I also need to compile the files that are in the win subdirectory. Unfortunately, when I tried compiling things there, I didn't have much success. The functions there seem to depend on specifics of the Borland MS compilers. Since I don't have any experience programming for Windows using those compilers, I had to give up. Has anyone else been successful making gnuplot work with the gnu-win32 tools? Perhaps it would not be too difficult for someone with some Windows programming experience. Thanks, jwe -- In the beginning, Ken Thompson | Octave: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave wrote the searching tool grep. | Me: http://www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe -- A. Hume, SP&E (1988) | - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".