RE: "Official" binary release for Windows - gnuplot issues

[John D]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:34 PM
To: 'John W. Eaton'; John D
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: "Official" binary release for Windows

--- On Thu, 2014/3/20, John D wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:05 PM
> To: John Donoghue; John W. Eaton
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> Subject: Re: "Official" binary release for Windows
> 
> --- On Wed, 2014/3/19, John W. Eaton  wrote:
> 
> > On 03/07/2014 07:10 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > > On 03/07/2014 06:08 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > >> Message: 3
> > >> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:21:01 -0500
> > >> From: "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden>
> > >> To: octave maintainers mailing list<address@hidden>
> > >> Subject: "Official" binary release for Windows 
> > >> Message-ID:<address@hidden>
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> > >>
> > >> I'd like to start making the Windows installer available from 
> > >> ftp.gnu.org.  Is it ready for that now?  Or are there some 
> > >> significant problems that need to be fixed before we should make
> "official" releases?
> > >>
> > >> jwe
> > >
> > > I havent had any issues recently with the build except with gcc.
> > >
> > > I had added a readme html file for the install that may want to be 
> > > looked at / modified prior to distribution, depending on what is 
> > > distributed or not.
> > >
> > > Would it also make sense to list in it all the packages that are 
> > > known to work and compile in windows ?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > Is there any good reason that openblas should not be used by default?
> > 
> > Are there any significant issues remaining?  Is it time to make the
> > 3.8.1 binary available?
> > 
> 
> I have tested the print feature of gnuplot graphics_toolkit using
> octave-3.8.1 binary for windows downloaded from 
> http://octave.osuv.de/3.8/windows/
>  
> octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
> octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available.
> octave:6> print -dpng cos.png
> octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
> octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available.
> octave:6> print -dpng cos.png
> 
> Both cos.eps and cos.png have finite file size but do not have graphs.
> 
> --
> 
> I just tried on my install  - It behaves the same as yours when 
> switched to gnuplot If I run fltk, print works as expected

I saw octave 'bin' directory and could not find libgd-x.dll (x indicates
version number).
I feel that gnuplot on mxe build is broken and should be corrected.
Otherwise it is better to use gnuplot for windows provided by gnuplot
official site.

Regards

Tatsuro   

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After playing around with gnuplot on and off over the last couple of weeks,
I believe I have it working now in Windows.

The issue ended up being that some of the required files for saving as
postscript were not being installed.

The attached patch appears to work for me - I am doing a complete rebuild
just to verify I don’t have anything left over from other attempts, and will
push the changeset to mxe-octave later today.

mxeoctave-gnuplot.patch
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