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

On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote: Absolutely. However, I don't think we'll be able to keep doing this for very long, if we ship a current version of gnuplot. The gnuplot guys have been quite explicit about this; from the gnuplot Changelog: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2017-07-07 Bastian Maerkisch <bmaerkisch(a)web.de&gt; * src/win/wd2d.cpp|h src/win/wgnuplib.h src/win/wgraph.c config/mingw/Makefile config/msvc/Makefile: Direct2D printing support. Requires D2d 1.1 and hence Windows 7 with platform update. Mingw-w64 currently misses the required prntvpt library and header, so we supply minimal definitions taken from MSDN inline and create a library from the DLL. * src/syscfg.h: Minimum required API version is Windows 7 by default. Vista and XP are end-of-service. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This means that future versions of gnuplot are likely to drift away further and further from the XP APIs. Therefore, the only way I see to keep the xp people on board with current gretl is to provide a "frozen" gnuplot win version (or a link, if the gnuplot project provides one), that thay can use as a replacement to the one we include in the gretl installer. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------