Re: [Plplot-general] RE: Installation of plplot

[Bryan P. <pet...@ma...>]

Thang,

I have a colleague who has an older verion of PLplot (might be
4.99f) running on Windows 95 using Microsoft C and Compaq/Digital
Fortran.  He has not had the time or incentive to update the files to run
on version 5.0.3 yet.  I can make the files available that he modified
available if you would like them.  We haven't added them to the official
distribution because we really don't have the resources to provide any
support for them.  I have a copy of the 990122 snapshot that I think will
work with his fixes if you would like to try that or you can try making
the fixes work with version 5.0.3 (I think the only real changed needed is
to the fix the locations of the include files).  Let me know if you would
like a copy of the msdev files.

Bryan Peterson
bry...@by...

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> 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
> 
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