Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version

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> > From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> > To: Mike Miller ; Rik 
> > Cc: John Donoghue ; Octave-Maintainers 
> > Date: 2016/9/16, Fri 09:04
> > Subject: Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> >>  From: Mike Miller 
> >>  To: Rik 
> >>  Cc: Octave-Maintainers 
> >>  Date: 2016/9/16, Fri 06:50
> >>  Subject: Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version
> >> 
> >>  On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 14:42:53 -0700, Rik wrote:
> >>>   I ran gnuplot.exe from the bin directory of 4.2.0-rc1 installed on a
> >>>   Windows XP VM.  Using 'set term' I see that the only usable 
> >>  terminal is
> >>>   "windows".  Are we actively choosing not to build other 
> >>  cross-platform
> >>>   terminals like wxt and qt, or is this just an accident?
> >> 
> >>  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474, there is some work underway to
> >>  try to build additional terminals.
> >> 
> >>  -- 
> >>  mike
> > 
> > 
> > Additional explanation
> > 
> > The current gnuplot for windows on mxe is built without external libraries.
> > Therefore it has only limit terminals.
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > The main purpose for the patch on the bug tracker, which Mike indicated,
> > is to compile gnuplot with cairo based and tikz terminals to support 
> > cairo based (e.g. pdfcairo ) and tikzstandalone print devices in octave.
> > This is because those print devises are described in the 4.2.0
> > (at that time 4.1.0+) manuals.
> > Compiling gnuplot with wxt and qt terminals are not included.
> > 
> > However, I have tried to compile gnuplot with wxt and qt terminals on 
> > mxe-octave. 
> > 
> > 1. qt
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment38
> > 
> > 
> > As I wrote there, we need qt5 to implement practically usable qt terminal.
> > 
> > 2. wxt
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment62
> > 
> > I personally have to be able to built wxwidgets  and  wxt terminal.
> > But I did not include it the current patch.
> > 
> > If there is a demand, I can prepare the patch for wxt terminal support.
> > 
> > Tatsuro
> 
> 
> Dear octave maintainer who are related with windows binary.
> 
> I have uploaded testing binary with gnuplot enabling cairo based (including 
> wxt) and tikz terminals. 
> 
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/tmp/octave-4.2.0-rc-1-12ea89cb1237-x64.7z
> 
> 
> Date 2016-09-19, size 253,239,296 byte, sha1sum 
> 3204ea4766e74e44287ab83bde8edb4fd8d7f19a.
> HG-ID 12ea89cb1237
> 
> Note that this is a development snapshot _not_ the same as the 4.2.0-rc1 on 
> the official site.  
> 
> This binary is _not_ intended for end users. 
> Upload period will be within a few days.
> 
> Changeset for mxe-octave used for this build is uploaded the below
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment65
> 
> 
> Tatsuro

Ah! I have made it in 64bit. I will also prepare in 32bit tomorrow.

Tatsuro