[Plplot-devel] Results of some tests

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

Hello,

I want to report the results from a few tests regarding the next
release. So far I have tested the following platforms:
1. Cygwin: shared library + dynamic drivers
2. Cygwin: static library + static drivers
3. Bare Windows: shared library + dynamic drivers

ad 1.
General:
CMake under Cygwin requires that you set the environment variable
CMAKE_ROOT, also when running make. (I need to make a note in the
installation documentation for that.)

There is a problem with the shared l'ibraries that are produced during
the build: you need to set the path right. Unfortunately this includes
_all_ paths: lib/csa, lib/nistcd, lib/qsastime, src, drivers, 
bindings/c++, etc.

I tried to use the LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH variable in the toplevel
CMakeLists.txt file, but that failed: libtool can not find the driver
DLLs then.

(We need to sort this one out!)

Tests:
None done, because of the above issues.

ad 2.
General:
Set CMAKE_ROOT

Tests:
Testing the Tcl examples fails - you need to set TCL_LIBRARY so that
the custom shell can find the initialisation files (init.tcl etc.)

Testing of C, C++, F77 and F95 worked fine. There are however
differences for examples 15 and 20.

ad 3.
General:
Extend the path with the directory containing the ...\dll subdirectory
(use the complete path to be sure; add to/check the installation notes).

Fortran:
For some reason the export definition files were not taken into account
when linking. I restored that feature - strictly for "bare Windows".
Otherwise the link step fails!

Tests:
Tcl fails again - presumably also on TCL_LIBRARY.

I had a failure in example x19f (F95), due to a difference in calling
conventions (the mapform function that is passed). This led to a
couple of changes, but it all works again.

Differences for examples 14, 15 and 20.

(Other platforms remain to be done: MSYS and MinGW)

Regards,

Arjen


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