[Plplot-devel] Ada tests on Windows look good

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

Here are the Ada diff results I am getting on the
MinGW/MSYS/wine 32-bit platform (on my 64-bit hardware):

ada
   Missing examples            :  33
   Differing postscript output :  04 18 26
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            : 
adathick
   Missing examples            :  33
   Differing postscript output :  04 18 26
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            :

These were obtained from comprehensive_test.sh configured to test just
the case of shared libraries for the test_noninteractive target in
both the build tree and CMakeified installed examples tree.

I got Ada to work on Windows by adopting a user's suggested workaround
(revision 11369).  I am extremely pleased the results are just as good
as on Linux and will probably be absolutely clean (just as should
happen for Linux) once the plstring, plstring3, and pllegend
propagation issues are attended to for Ada.

Note, the good results above were obtained with the Ada compiler that
is automatically downloaded and installed when you use the latest
MinGW installer. I have just documented at
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Install_MinGW/MSYS
how to install MinGW (and MSYS) using the new automatic installer for
that software.  Once you install modern MinGW that way, Ada should
automatically be part of the PLplot build from then on for all
MinGW-related platforms.

I have heard a report off-list from Arjen that there are some
configurations of comprehensive_test.sh where Ada does not work for
MinGW/MSYS/Microsoft.  I am swamped with other PLplot work so it will
be a while before I can even attempt to verify those results on wine,
but for now the above configuration of comprehensive_test.sh works
perfectly for me (aside from the known propagation issues) on
MinGW/MSYS/wine.

Alan
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