Re: [Gretl-devel] gnuplot does not work under xp

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, yinung at Gmail wrote: Thanks. It turns out that while it's quite easy to cut out Direct2D support in current gnuplot, it's not so easy to cut out support for Microsoft's "Secure API". As I understand it, the same code cannot work on Windows XP and modern Windows, since Microsoft's version of the function swprintf() started out on XP as non-conformant with the C standard but has since been modified to be standard-conformant (so the parameter list differs between versions). By itself, this implies that if we want to continue to support XP we'll have to produce a special build of wgnuplot.exe. However, at this point it's not clear to me how to produce such a special build using a modern compiler. I expect it's not impossible and I'll make some further attempts, but it may be that XP has come to the end of the road so far as gretl updates are concerned. Allin