Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: Mike Miller ; Rik 
> Cc: John Donoghue ; Octave-Maintainers 
> Date: 2016/9/16, Fri 09:04
> Subject: Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: Mike Miller 
>>  To: Rik 
>>  Cc: Octave-Maintainers 
>>  Date: 2016/9/16, Fri 06:50
>>  Subject: Re: Available gnuplot terminal in MXE windows version
>> 
>>  On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 14:42:53 -0700, Rik wrote:
>>>   I ran gnuplot.exe from the bin directory of 4.2.0-rc1 installed on a
>>>   Windows XP VM.  Using 'set term' I see that the only usable 
>>  terminal is
>>>   "windows".  Are we actively choosing not to build other 
>>  cross-platform
>>>   terminals like wxt and qt, or is this just an accident?
>> 
>>  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474, there is some work underway to
>>  try to build additional terminals.
>> 
>>  -- 
>>  mike
> 
> 
> Additional explanation
> 
> The current gnuplot for windows on mxe is built without external libraries.
> Therefore it has only limit terminals.
>  
> 
> 
> The main purpose for the patch on the bug tracker, which Mike indicated,
> is to compile gnuplot with cairo based and tikz terminals to support 
> cairo based (e.g. pdfcairo ) and tikzstandalone print devices in octave.
> This is because those print devises are described in the 4.2.0
> (at that time 4.1.0+) manuals.
> Compiling gnuplot with wxt and qt terminals are not included.
> 
> However, I have tried to compile gnuplot with wxt and qt terminals on 
> mxe-octave. 
> 
> 1. qt
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment38
> 
> 
> As I wrote there, we need qt5 to implement practically usable qt terminal.
> 
> 2. wxt
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment62
> 
> I personally have to be able to built wxwidgets  and  wxt terminal.
> But I did not include it the current patch.
> 
> If there is a demand, I can prepare the patch for wxt terminal support.
> 
> Tatsuro


Dear octave maintainer who are related with windows binary.

I have uploaded testing binary with gnuplot enabling cairo based (including 
wxt) and tikz terminals. 

http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/tmp/octave-4.2.0-rc-1-12ea89cb1237-x64.7z


Date 2016-09-19, size 253,239,296 byte, sha1sum 
3204ea4766e74e44287ab83bde8edb4fd8d7f19a.
HG-ID 12ea89cb1237

Note that this is a development snapshot _not_ the same as the 4.2.0-rc1 on the 
official site.  

This binary is _not_ intended for end users. 
Upload period will be within a few days.

Changeset for mxe-octave used for this build is uploaded the below

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474#comment65


Tatsuro