Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot 5.5.3 wingcc problem

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi G=F6sta,

I get this error message if the Hershey font files are not somewhere=20
where they could be found. So you must provide the files

plstnd5.fnt
plxtnd5.fnt

at the location of your executable or maybe somewhere in your PATH=20
(which I'm not sure of). If they are in the same folder than the=20
executable it should work in any case.

HTH,
Werner

G=F6sta Ljungdahl wrote:
> I have successfully compiled and run programs using plplot under winXP=20
> using MinGW. I recently tried running one of these programs on another=20
> PC running winXP and it aborted with the following error message:
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> "Unable to open or allocate memory for font file"
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> I have searched both the problems file and the mailing lists but as far=
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> as I can tell this problem is not mentioned. If I've missed it then I=20
> apologise and would be grateful for directions regarding how to solve=20
> the problem.
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> To be quite specific it's actually the same physical machine but in one=
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> case it's a native installation and in the other I'm running winXP as a=
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> VMWare guest OS. The VMWare installation runs on Linux Mandriva 10.2 ak=
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> Limited Edition 2005. The PC is a Dell Latitude D800 using NVIDIA graph=
ics.
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> I tried running the program specifying another driver i.e. ps and in=20
> this case the program runs as expected on either winXP installation so=20
> it is clear that the problem lies with the wingcc driver. Since the=20
> build of plplot went smoothly on the native winXP installation I tried=20
> rebuilding it on the VMWare virtual winXP installation and again the=20
> build went smoothly. Recompiling the program was then successful and=20
> wingcc behaved as expected. As far as I can make out this means that=20
> wether or not the executable works at least depends on whether I'm=20
> running a virtual PC or not but there is also indication that it depend=
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> on the actual hardware as I've tried running the same excutable on yet=20
> another PC running a native win2k installation.
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> In the hope that this will help the efforts to improve the wingcc drive=
r.
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> Best wishes,
> G=F6sta Ljungdahl
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