MSWin issues holding up 4.4.rc1

[Ethan Merritt]

This is a plea for assistance with serveral windows-specific bugs

still marked "open" on the bug tracker.

I was really hoping that we could resolve the major known glitches

in the windows terminal before putting out a 4.4 release candidate.

And in fact a couple of windows bugs were resolved over the summer

(emf + enhanced text now works, kudos to Ben Lindner).

Unfortunately several other remain.

Bug #

2848002 Ctrl+C crashes windows console build

2807154 On Vista x64 plot keeps redrawing

1952364 Windows driver draws points with dashed lines

1952287 Windows driver draws dashed border for rectangles

1609845 quota limits pipe size in pgnuplot

I very much suspect that the "quota limits" thing is out of date;

pgnuplot has been replaced by a newer console mode variant, right?

I've seen no other complaints about continual redrawing in Vista.

Can someone confirm whether this is reproducible?

The two dashed line problems may be the same bug, and are probably

trivial to fix if you have a windows build system to use for debugging.

--

Ethan A Merritt

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[Tatsuro MATSUOKA-5]

--- Ethan Merritt <merritt@...> wrote:

> This is a plea for assistance with serveral windows-specific bugs
> still marked "open" on the bug tracker.
>
> I was really hoping that we could resolve the major known glitches
> in the windows terminal before putting out a 4.4 release candidate.
> And in fact a couple of windows bugs were resolved over the summer
> (emf + enhanced text now works, kudos to Ben Lindner).
>
> Unfortunately several other remain.
>
>    Bug #
>  2848002   Ctrl+C crashes windows console build

This phenomena also occur on octave / mingw.  To my knowledge this comes limitation of cmd.exe and is
not easy to be avoided.


>  1609845   quota limits pipe size in pgnuplot
>
> I very much suspect that the "quota limits" thing is out of date;
> pgnuplot has been replaced by a newer console mode variant, right?

I think so. If the implementation of console version gnuplot to the official release, pgnuplot is no
longer needed because it can be used for limited range.

Regards

Tatsuro      

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[Tait]

Ethan Merritt <merritt_u.washington.edu> said (on 2009/10/07):
> This is a plea for assistance with serveral windows-specific bugs
> still marked "open" on the bug tracker.
> ...
>    Bug #
>  2848002   Ctrl+C crashes windows console build
>  2807154   On Vista x64 plot keeps redrawing
>  1952364   Windows driver draws points with dashed lines
>  1952287   Windows driver draws dashed border for rectangles
>  1609845   quota limits pipe size in pgnuplot

I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
where I'm getting errors.

Tait


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[Tatsuro MATSUOKA-5]

Hello

--- Tait  wrote:
>
> I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
> I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
> someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
> share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
> where I'm getting errors.
>
OK
Please give me some time to write tips and to upload the gd and wxWidget libraries built by myself.
(Other dependency libraries are able to downloaded from the web site of GTK for windows.)

I will do it on my weekend job.

Regards

Tatsuro

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[Tait]

> > > I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
> > > I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
> > > someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
> > > share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
> > > where I'm getting errors.
> > >
> > OK
> > Please give me some time to write tips and to upload the gd and wxWidget libraries built by myself.
> > (Other dependency libraries are able to downloaded from the web site of GTK for windows.)
>
> Did you manage to get mingw under control?
> Are you still planning to have a look at the listed bug reports?

A little prod can do wonders for one's motivation sometimes... thanks
Ethan!

I had sort of let this linger a bit long, so I finally got off my duff
and had another go. After a lengthy process of beating libgd (2.0.35)
into submission, I think I have managed to successfully compile gnuplot.
I don't have HCW, so I just commented that command out of the makefile
for the time being.

Notably, "make install" fails:
        $ make install
        ./doc2rtf ../docs/gnuplot.doc win/gnuplot.rtf
        # hcw -c -e win/wgnuplot.hpj
        mkdir -p /home/xxxxxxxx/install
        cp gnuplot.exe /home/xxxxxxxx/install/gnuplot.exe
        cp: cannot stat `gnuplot.exe': No such file or directory
        make: *** [install] Error 1

This appears to be a minor issue, as pgnuplot.exe and wgnuplot.exe both
exist. I ran wgnuplot.exe and was able to do a quick plot and splot. A
quick svg plot seems to have worked. However, a quick attempt at a png
plot led to an application crash at offset 0x000a01ee. The exception
was 0xc0000005. (SVG and PNG are probably the two most common formats I
use.) I'm not sure if this is a libgd issue, or what.

Debugging (outside of MS tools) is sorta new to me, so guidance and
suggestions are welcome. This was the latest CVS that I checked out as
of about 10 minutes before writing this email.

Tait


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[Tatsuro MATSUOKA-5]

Hello

Sorry for my delaying to write the tutorial because I'm busy in my university work now.

> Notably, "make install" fails:
> $ make install
> ./doc2rtf ../docs/gnuplot.doc win/gnuplot.rtf
> # hcw -c -e win/wgnuplot.hpj
> mkdir -p /home/xxxxxxxx/install
> cp gnuplot.exe /home/xxxxxxxx/install/gnuplot.exe
> cp: cannot stat `gnuplot.exe': No such file or directory
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> This appears to be a minor issue, as pgnuplot.exe and wgnuplot.exe both
> exist.

If you would like to make gnuplot.exe, 'TARGET' in the makefile.mgw should be set as gnuplot.exe.  If
you would like to build all binaries; wgnuplot.exe, gnuplot.exe and wguplot_pipes.exe, you should
execute 'make' three times by changing the TARGET.
In my case, all TARGET is commented out in the makefile.mgw and set TARGET variable and make three
binaries as  

****************************
# make gnuplot.exe
cd /home/gnuplotcvs/gnuplot
echo TARGET=gnuplot.exe > target.txt
cat target.txt config/makefile.mgw > config/makefile.mgw.t
make clean -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t; make -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t

# make wgnuplot_pipes.exe
cd /home/gnuplotcvs/gnuplot
echo TARGET=wgnuplot_pipes.exe > target.txt
cat target.txt config/makefile.mgw > config/makefile.mgw.t
make clean -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t; make -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t

# make wgnuplot.exe
cd /home/gnuplotcvs/gnuplot
echo TARGET=wgnuplot.exe > target.txt
cat target.txt config/makefile.mgw> config/makefile.mgw.t
make clean -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t; make -C src -f ../config/makefile.mgw.t
**************************
 However, a quick attempt at a png
> plot led to an application crash at offset 0x000a01ee. The exception
> was 0xc0000005. (SVG and PNG are probably the two most common formats I
> use.) I'm not sure if this is a libgd issue, or what.
>
> Debugging (outside of MS tools) is sorta new to me, so guidance and
> suggestions are welcome. This was the latest CVS that I checked out as
> of about 10 minutes before writing this email.

Building the gd library requires grate care.  

Do you build your gd libraries dynamically ?

I am now using  dynamic libgd (2.0.36RC1) constructed with very trick hucks.

Basically it is safe to use statically build libgd libraries.
At the statically building, you should add

#define NONDLL 1

at the very top of gd.h.

BTW, how did get libpng, libjpeg, freetype and zlib libraries?
>From GNUWIN32, GTK+ download for windows or build by yourself.

I am using the gd and cario related libraries downloaded from the GTK+ download for windows.
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

These libraries enable us to make pngcairo and pdfcairo terminals.
However, the modification of a  header file of jpeg7 was required to build gd library.

I hope the above is useful for you.

Regards

Tatsuro  




--- Tait wrote:

> > > > I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
> > > > I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
> > > > someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
> > > > share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
> > > > where I'm getting errors.
> > > >
> > > OK
> > > Please give me some time to write tips and to upload the gd and wxWidget libraries built by
> myself.
> > > (Other dependency libraries are able to downloaded from the web site of GTK for windows.)
> >
> > Did you manage to get mingw under control?
> > Are you still planning to have a look at the listed bug reports?
>
> A little prod can do wonders for one's motivation sometimes... thanks
> Ethan!
>
> I had sort of let this linger a bit long, so I finally got off my duff
> and had another go. After a lengthy process of beating libgd (2.0.35)
> into submission, I think I have managed to successfully compile gnuplot.
> I don't have HCW, so I just commented that command out of the makefile
> for the time being.
>
> Notably, "make install" fails:
> $ make install
> ./doc2rtf ../docs/gnuplot.doc win/gnuplot.rtf
> # hcw -c -e win/wgnuplot.hpj
> mkdir -p /home/xxxxxxxx/install
> cp gnuplot.exe /home/xxxxxxxx/install/gnuplot.exe
> cp: cannot stat `gnuplot.exe': No such file or directory
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> This appears to be a minor issue, as pgnuplot.exe and wgnuplot.exe both
> exist. I ran wgnuplot.exe and was able to do a quick plot and splot. A
> quick svg plot seems to have worked. However, a quick attempt at a png
> plot led to an application crash at offset 0x000a01ee. The exception
> was 0xc0000005. (SVG and PNG are probably the two most common formats I
> use.) I'm not sure if this is a libgd issue, or what.
>
> Debugging (outside of MS tools) is sorta new to me, so guidance and
> suggestions are welcome. This was the latest CVS that I checked out as
> of about 10 minutes before writing this email.
>
> Tait
>
>
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[Benjamin Lindner]

Tait wrote:

> Ethan Merritt <merritt_u.washington.edu> said (on 2009/10/07):
>> This is a plea for assistance with serveral windows-specific bugs
>> still marked "open" on the bug tracker.
>> ...
>>    Bug #
>>  2848002   Ctrl+C crashes windows console build
>>  2807154   On Vista x64 plot keeps redrawing
>>  1952364   Windows driver draws points with dashed lines
>>  1952287   Windows driver draws dashed border for rectangles
>>  1609845   quota limits pipe size in pgnuplot
>
> I'd love to help out with this, since I use gnuplot on Windows a lot, but
> I still haven't been able to get the sources to build (using mingw). If
> someone has tips/tricks on getting gnuplot to build under mingw, please
> share them. If not, I'll clean up, start over, and try to post a log
> where I'm getting errors.
>
> Tait

If you're interested, you can take a look at the patches and procedures
I use for building gnuplot and its dependencies as plotting backend for
octave. You can find the code at

https://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/tools/gnuplot

It's currently for the 4.3.0-2009-07-08 CVS snapshot.

benjamin

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