Re: [Gretl-devel] gnuplot does not work under xp
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 08.10.2017 um 19:55 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, yinung at Gmail wrote:
>
>> I just tried gretl 2017b, the gnuplot work fine.
>
> Gnuplot's Windows "terminal" has come to depend on more (and more
recent)
> native Windows functionality, including that of d2d2.dll.
>
> I recently updated our build of wgnuplot.exe, but I wasn't aware that this
> new stuff would break Windows XP support. Maybe we should drop back to an
> earlier gnuplot version.
I'm sorry, but the way I understood Yi-Nung was that the problem only ocurred
with gretl 2017c. Not with 2017b (that might suggest a recent breaking
change), but also not with 2017d, where I interpret that as meaning 2017d-git
/ recent snapshot.
That would indicate that it wasn't a permanent change, but some other
intermittent bug?
It was 2016d that was OK, not 2017d. No, it's quite clear that our
recent builds of wgnuplot.exe introduced a dependency on newer
Windows DLLs (associated with Direct2D) that are not available for
XP.
However, I've now uploaded snapshots that (if I've got things right
on my second attempt) drop the Direct2D dependency.
Allin