Re: [Gretl-devel] Feature request for plotting: GUI accesss to xtics and ytics

Thanks Allin, I Agree that this is not a good use of your time as the Windows snapshot is updated in darn near real time with git. So it is not like Windows users are stuck waiting very long. However, for my own edification, I will have a look at the link you suggested. Cheers, Logan From: Allin Cottrell Sent: Sunday, October 25, 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] Feature request for plotting: GUI accesss to xtics and ytics To: r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it, Gretl development On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > The following piece of conversation somehow dropped off-list, but > IMO is of general interest, so I'm re-posting it. > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Logan Kelly wrote: > >> I saw an older post about building under Windows, but there was a >> need for someone to maintain the system. If this is something of >> value, I'm willing to help. However, I haven't had any problems >> with the snapshot not being updated quickly enough. So maybe the >> marginal benefits are limited. I do think the marginal benefit is limited, but in case anyone is interested in building gretl from git on MS Windows, here are a few thoughts. First, should you use MSVC or a GNU-like alternative? And if the latter, which alternative? My recommendation is to use mingw. I successfully built gretl using mingw on Windows a few years back, so I know it can be done. Cygwin might be OK too, but if you want a build that can be distributed to other Windows users you'd have to be careful not to build in any cygwin-specific dependencies. MSVC is unknown territory for me. In principle it should be possible to build gretl using MS proprietary tools but I can't offer any help on that. In the gretl source tree there's a "win32" subdirectory that contains various files relevant to a Windows build using mingw. These files are set up such that you can choose between "cross" (which I use, compiling for Windows on Linux) and "native". See in particular "Makefile" and "mkwindist". On the gretl server at WFU there's a directory "winbuild" -- http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/ -- with some material that was potentially helpful about 3 years ago ;-) If anyone is seriously interested in trying a gretl build on Windows I could update that material. Otherwise, doing so is not a good use of my time. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel