Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: compiling gnubg for windows (fwd)

[Øystein Johansen]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:33:20PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > Is it the mingw compiler that makes the code or the cygwin compiler?
> 
> mingw. I only use the unix utils of cygwin (including make and sh) but not
> the development environment.
> 
> > What happen if you type:
> > objdump -p gnubg.exe | grep dll
> 
>         DLL Name: libgdk-0.dll
>       DLL Name: libglib-2.0-0.dll
>       DLL Name: libgtk-0.dll
>       DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
>       DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
>       DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
>       DLL Name: USER32.dll

Good! Good! Good! It looks like you've got it completly right! 

> > Suggestion:
> > Use native gdk and gtk to make the plot or use gtk-extra libraries.
> > If we now start using guppi there will be some code (GTKSHowMET)
> > based on gtk-extra, and some other code based on guppi. Sounds silly.
> > ..ok... yes we could make some #ifdefs ... guppi might not be bad
> > after all, but avoid gnuplot.
> 
> I used gnuplot a lot 10 years ago but haven't touched it since. Is it
> no good anymore?

gnuplot is still a fantastic tool! It draws a nice graph in any format
you can ever imagine. It works on all platforms I know of. I can even copy
the graph as a metafile on Windows! The problem is that I don't think it's
right for the project. I have worked with octave, a tool that uses gnuplot
as it's ploting tool, and I have seen all the problems that project got into
due to this -- but of course, gnuplot is better than nothing, and it will
be very simple to connect it through a named pipe.    

-Øystein

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