Updated 7/17/2011

Actually this page is for hints and makefiles/projects in order to compile Linux programs on Windows.

Linux activated creation of useful programs.  Unfortunately Windows cannot easily take advantage of this activity due to the lack of common libraries and the compiler differences (gcc vs. VC).  Some projects on Linux try to accomodate Windows to have makefile.nt or even VS solutions/projects.   Sadly due to the lack of commitment on the windows side these makefiles or projects/solutions are quickly becoming outdated.  I want to create a page dedicated to update makefiles and projects to the latest MS Visual Studio so that the compiled programs (likely to be 32 bit) to run on 64 bit Windows 7 in WOW64 (x86 emulator) mode.   I will also talk about tricks and hints in porting programs to windows environment.  I had to create this page due to the time I spent on trying to compile gnuplot 4.4.3 for the last three days.  On the other hand, Ubuntu Linux was able to build gnuplot by "apt get gnuplot" and did compile and install in 5 minutes!   Three days vs. 5 minuts!  I hope that I can help you to reduce the time.

GNUPLOT-4.4.3

eval.c, win\wgraph.c, win\wmenu.c need '#include <direct.h>' for _getcwd definition.