Re: [Plplot-devel] Cygwin/Wine testing of PLplot

[chm <dev...@gm...>]

On 4/16/2011 7:32 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2011-04-16 14:25-0400 chm wrote:
>
>> On 4/16/2011 1:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> [...]and I
>>> also need some additional time to pursue my idea that it might be
>>> possible to test PLplot on Cygwin under wine.
>>
>>> On 2011-04-16 11:44-0400 chm wrote:
>> I don't think cygwin testing under wine has much
>> chance of working as cygwin makes aggressive use
>> of many of the win32 programming API and so is
>> sensitive to things that are only slightly different
>> from real windows...
>
> That MinGW/MSYS/wine success encourages me to try Cygwin under Wine as
> well. After all, you only need a working compiler, a working CMake,
> and a working make app under Cygwin to build and test a minimal C-only
> version of PLplot.

You make some good points.  If you limit the amount
of functionality you require from cygwin that would
increase the likelihood of getting the cygwin.dll
to work.  It could be a very interesting experiment
and a real achievement of WINE.  :-)

--Chris