Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPlot on MS Windows

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

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Hello Olof:
>
> Our windows expertise is limited so we welcome any help we can get with the
> windows platform for plplot.  So thanks very much for your patches to the
> two files. They are isolated to the win32 directory and only a few lines so
> unless any expert here (which I don't pretend to be) sees a problem, I will
> put them into cvs.

I have thought better of immediately putting this patch into CVS.  The
current cvs version of PLplot is different from 5.0.4 in that a mechanism
has been introduced to allow dynamically loaded drivers.  The old static
method is still available as well, but I am not sure whether or not anything
extra will have to be done in the win32 tree to continue to use the static
method. Anyhow, Olof, would you be willing to try out the plplot cvs version
under w2k?  If the required changes to get it working are as simple as in
the 5.0.4 case, I will be happy to put those changes into the CVS version.
Such effort would be well worthwhile since I am planning to bring out a new
stable release of plplot in the near future based on the current CVS
version, and it would be nice for me to be able to state that you have
introduced changes to make it work under w2k.

To get the latest cvs version of plplot follow the anonymous cvs
instructions at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915.  For the second
cvs command, "modulename" should be plplot.  The result will be a directory
tree called plplot in your current directory so make sure nothing in your
current directory is called plplot before you invoke that second command.

I am also most interested (for both 5.0.4 and the present cvs version) whether
you can build all the test plots using plplot-test.sh under w2k.

Alan