RE: "Official" binary release for Windows

[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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Looking at gnuplot build, its not compiled with gd support so doesn’t use it
anyway (at the moment). I have a patch to enable libgd (attached) when
compiling, but it didn’t appear to make it magically work with it enabled,
so something else might be missing.

gnuplot-gd.patch
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