Hi,

I'm on MS Windows, building with the MinGW port of gcc.
I've been told (in an earlier thread on this list) that the png files
produced using the GD driver are not as good as the png files delivered by
pango-cairo, and I've seen first hand that the pango-cairo png files are
excellent.
 However, it would really suit my purposes better if I could get png support
via the GD driver - so I would at least like to build plplot with the
support of that driver, and then weigh up for myself the matter of loss of
quality versus convenience.

It's not apparent to me how one goes about building this driver. I do have a
static build of the gd library already installed, and would like to use it
if possible. (And I'd prefer to build the plplot library 
with -DENABLE_SHARED_LIBS=OFF, too.)

If it's a lot easier to build a shared plplot, with a GD driver built 
against a shared GD library, then I could do that - and worry about how to 
get the job done statically iff I decide that the png quality is acceptable.

Any advice on how to get this GD driver built ?

Cheers,
Rob


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