gnuplot for octave in windows nt

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Mar-1998, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| yes i have tracked all this down too.  unfortunately, i am still unable to
| get a working gnuplot because:
| 
| 1) source for gnuplot pre3.6 beta 332 seems to have disappeared off the
| face of the earth.
| 
| 2) mumit khan's patch does not work against the version i did manage to
| find - beta 340.  there
| seems to be a lot of activity since 332 and almost all patches are
| rejected.

Hmm.  I just tried it, and only one section of the patch failed.

| 3) i have no idea how to get it to compile with cygwin32.  i did manage to
| compile it by combining the
| makefiles for unix, windows and os/2 but i never got the executable to
| actually display anything.

Sorry, I don't know how to make the binaries work with the gnu-win32
compiler.  I think that the original Windows port of gnuplot expected
to be compiled with a Windows compiler, like Borland's or
Microsoft's.  If someone *does* know how to build the patched version
of gnuplot with the gnu-win32 compiler, I'd definitely appreciate it
if they would share that information.

| has anyone gotten a working gnuplot?  i know there's something about not
| being able to distribute
| modified binaries, but if a patch and it's corresponding pristine source
| could be made available at
| one site, it would go a *long* way to help us out.

OK, I will try to update Mumit's patch for gnuplot-beta340.  If I can
determine that it is ok for me to redistribute gnuplot-beta340, I will
also make that available on the Octave ftp/web site.

Thanks,

jwe