Re: [Plplot-general] plplot build error

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2007-04-07 10:26-0700 winson wrote:

> 4) Build the library with release configuration, and I
> got the same fail:
>
> Generating plhershey-unicode.h
> 'plhershey-unicode-gen.exe' is not recognized as an
> internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> I searched the file 'plhershey-unicode-gen.exe'. It is
> located at "D:\plplot-5.7.3\VCXX\include\release" on
> my computer. I used it to generate
> 'plhershey-unicode-gen.h' on command-line, and again
> it worked. It seems that the compiler could not find
> the file 'plhershey-unicode-gen.exe' with the settings
> in CMakeList.txt.
>
> 5) Other than this fail, the compilation of other
> library files seems okay although with some warnings.
>
> One question I have now is that how I should change
> the configuration so that the compiler can find
> 'plhershey-unicode-gen.exe' on my computer and do the
> header file generation? Perhaps add a couple of lines
> in CMakeLists.txt, but which one and what shall I add?

Thanks, winson, for your continued tests and clear report of the problem you
are encountering.  I don't have any windows experience myself, but hopefully
other members of the PLplot development team with such experience can figure
out what is wrong from your report and adjust our CMake-based build system
to do the correct thing for your particular combination of build tools.  In
any case, I have never been particularly happy with the brute-force approach
I authored to establish the dependency of the custom command on the
plhershey-unicode-gen executable, and I will ask if there is a better way to
establish such a dependency on the CMake mailing list.

Alan
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