Re: [Gretl-devel] gnuplot does not work under xp
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Hélio Guilherme wrote:
> (...)
> Maybe we should drop back to an earlier gnuplot version.
>
> Allin
>
Well, I don't think so. XP is "old" now. I think we should try to do some
detection of OS version and inform the user that some gnuplot features
mught now work. Maybe then there could be a workaround to have it working
(or even a "patch" for XP users). If the "patch" solution is too
costly on
maintenance, maybe a solution that just by installing older gnuplot would
be enough.
Ah, I now see that we don't need to go back to an earlier gnuplot
version, we can just comment out
#define HAVE_D2D
in config.h for the Windows build. That way the gnuplot Windows
terminal will use GDI/GDI+ instead of the newer Direct2D API. I don't
think that's any great loss.
XP is 16 years old, and unsupported by Microsoft, but it's still used
very widely. If we can maintain support for it that's good.
I'm in the process of posting new snapshots that include a revised
wgnuplot build. Yi-Nung, can you tell us if this version works,
please?
Allin