[Plplot-general] RE: Installation of plplot

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Hello Thang,

I am not actively using PLplot on Windows at this time.So I am not
very able to respond personally.  I've taken the liberty of cross
posting this reply to plplot-general, the general discussion list for
PLplot.  Hopefully someone in the community will have some helpful
advice.

We do want to be able to support commonly used platforms with PLplot,
so if you or anyone else would like to update the support for msdev,
please feel free to contribute updated code or documentation.  Writing
to plplot-devel would be a good place to start.  

We do have active support on Windows/DJGPP at this time, but I do not
know how relevant that is for msdev.

If I ever do get around to looking into the WXX situation personally,
it would probably be in a cygwin context, at least initially.
However, there is no timeline for this, since I remain blissfully
engrossed in my Linux environment at this point in time.

Thang Nguyen writes:
 >  Dear Mr. Furnish,
 >   
 >   My name is Thang Nguyen and I am a student at the University of
 > Kaiserslautern, Germany. I would like to work with plplot5.0.3
 > under Windows NT, but unfortunately I have problems with the
 > installation.
 >   
 > I followed the instructions given in
 > sys/wiwn32/install/msdev/install.txt.  Copying files to tmp with
 > nmake (Step 1) was no problem, but creating the libraries in Step 2
 > did not work.
 >   
 >   Building plplot.dll produces error messages due to uninitialised
 > variables.
 >   
 >   May I ask you whether you know about installation problems of
 > plplot 5 under Windows? It would be very helpful, if you could give
 > me some advice. Or maybe you could tell where I can get an ancient
 > version of plplot which is working.  Thank you very much in advance
 >   
 >   Best regards,
 >         Thang Nguyen

With regard to the ancient version request, we don't have the
historical archives up at sourceforge right now, but it would be
possible to checkout any dated version of PLplot using anoncvs with
some appropriate date tag.  Does anyone out there know a date when the
msdev version was known to work?

-- 
Geoffrey Furnish