gnuplot-beta

Re: build files

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

>
> Btw. is there anyone who knows about the status of the Zortech (aka Digital Mars)
> compiler support (makefile.ztc)? (There are also a few terminals
> which require this compiler...)
>

The Zortech (Digital Mars) only drivers in fg.trm (hercules, egamono, egalib, vgalib, vgamono, svgalib, ssvgalib) rely on a library named "Flash Graphics".

I just checked the Digital Mars Forum at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/c++/dos/32-bits/417.html
There - and in other threads - I found the following statement:

"Flash Graphics was the graphics package for DOSX. Unfortunately, the authors of it have chosen to no longer make it available. There's nothing I can do about it."

The oldest such statement I could find is dated Jul 31 2003. This is probably an indication that the Digital Mars compiler has not been used to compile gnuplot since then. So I propose to remove the drivers and the support for the Zortech compiler (#idef __ZTC__).
 
  Bastian

Re: build files

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Am 11.04.2011 11:26, schrieb Petr Mikulik:
>> Those have more recent versions, which build out-of-tree. But they may still be in use:
>>
>>    config/
>>    makefile.cyg: Cygwin, superseded by config/cygwin/Makefile
>>    makefile.mgw: MinGW, superseded by config/mingw/Makefile
>>    makefile.wc, config.wc, config.oww: Watcom, superseded by config/watcom/*
>
> I wonder about creation of the 3 new directores config/mingw/,
> config/cygwin/, config/watcom/ ... but not for all other makefiles. Until
> now all makefiles, including unixish ./configure + make, put all .o into
> src/, and nobody complains.
>
> Thus, either all supported makefiles should get their own directory, or no
> one.

Agreed. I am volunteering to update makefile.nt accordingly. I could
also provide a Visual C++ project file, if there's any interest.

I would like to stress that in my opinion out-of-tree builds are really
a worthwhile feature. This is especially true on Windows, where gnuplot
currently supports (at least) four different build systems (MinGW,
OpenWatcom, Visual C++ and Cygwin). Having each built in its own
directory makes life a lot easier.

  Bastian

Re: build files

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 07:25:37 am Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> >
> > Btw. is there anyone who knows about the status of the Zortech (aka Digital Mars)
> > compiler support (makefile.ztc)? (There are also a few terminals
> > which require this compiler...)
> >
> 
> The Zortech (Digital Mars) only drivers in fg.trm (hercules, egamono, egalib, vgalib, vgamono, svgalib, ssvgalib) rely on a library named "Flash Graphics".

Zortech may well be dead, but note
  hercules - also supported by pc.trm
  vgalib - supported by linux.trm and ggi.trm
  svgalib - supported by ggi.trm

> I just checked the Digital Mars Forum at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/c++/dos/32-bits/417.html
> There - and in other threads - I found the following statement:
> 
> "Flash Graphics was the graphics package for DOSX. Unfortunately, the authors of it have chosen to no longer make it available. There's nothing I can do about it."
> 
> The oldest such statement I could find is dated Jul 31 2003. This is probably an indication that the Digital Mars compiler has not been used to compile gnuplot since then. So I propose to remove the drivers and the support for the Zortech compiler (#idef __ZTC__).

Removing fg.trm, makefile.ztc, and code conditional on _ZTC_ sounds fine.

vgalib/svgalib are definitely still in use via the linux and ggi terminals.
hercules - I don't know. Is pc.trm also a candidate for removal?

	Ethan