ntdll.dll error using plplot, VS 2017 and Windows 8.1

All,

I recently needed a new drive in an old computer and after reinstalling all my s/w have the following issue.

I am developing applications on a Windows 8.1 machine using VS 2017 enterprise edition, wxWidgets, plplot, and various other open source code (e.g. Eigen, boost, etc).

The build and install of plplot was not without issue but after some work and help from the plplot POCs I was able to get it to install without an error. Now I'm running the examples just to be sure things work as expected. It seems that the examples provided by plplot do run as expected but upon closing them it crashes. Using the debugger I get the following error,

Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFB1C8D1340 (ntdll.dll) in plplotExamples.exe: 0xC0000374: A heap has been corrupted (parameters: 0x00007FFB1C90DD50).

This seems to occur whenever there is a delete of the plot stream, delete pls;.

I did some web searches leading to stackoverflow and tried all I can to get info on this issue. There does not seem to be any issue with the dll, memory issues, or any other issue caught by diagnostic checks.

Looking for any suggestions to better understand this issue and how to fix it. These examples worked prior to the new drive and reinstalling s/w so I'm guessing a bad install of something, or incorrect system parameter, path variable, etc setting, but not sure where to look.

Thank you in advance for your help.