Re: [Plplot-devel] Serious problem under Cygwin - temporary files

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:

>
> First, you don't need all those ":BOOL" strings in the cmake command 
> line.
> (They don't hurt, but why type extra?  For example, -DBUILD_TEST=ON 
> should
> work fine.)
>
This command line is stored in a small script, so the actual typing is 
minimal :).

> Second, BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is ON by default.  So the above should reduce
> to
>
> /cygdrive/c/arjen/cmake-cygwin/CMake/bin/cmake -DBUILD_TEST=ON \
> -DDEFAULT_NO_DEVICES=ON -DPLD_ps=ON -G "Unix Makefiles" ../plplot
>
Well, it is a leftover from the days this did not seem to work

> Third, the above error message is extremely specific and should tell you
> pretty much what the problem is.  As is often the case with cmake, it is
> simply a find problem. Look in the vicinity of line 115 of 
> plplot.cmake to
> confirm that. It is looking for various combinations of header files 
> on Unix
> (including Cygwin) systems. Any one of those header file combinations 
> will
> do.  Set the appropriate environment variables to help CMake find what
> it needs on your Cygwin platform.
>
I checked the mail just a few minutes before leaving for work and did this
one experiment. I did not have time to look at the source code.

Yes, I have two scripts/batch files to help me experimenting with the CBS.
So far I have not had a need to instruct CMake via environment variables,
which is a good thing, IMHO. I will check the file in question and try 
again.

Regards,

Arjen