Re: [Plplot-general] Independence of executables from buildplatform

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

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Eldred wrote:

> I'm trying
> to distribute an executable (DAKOTA in this case) to other platforms
> which has the PLplot library (libplplotfX.a) linked in as a graphics
> library....

Sorry, I was completely in the mindset of shared libraries, dynamic drivers,
etc., where the best solution is to distribute the installed PLplot tree (or
the parts of it which you need).  However, if you are statically linking the
PLplot library into your DAKOTA executable, then I think the simplest
solution (as you have already discovered) is to distribute the (Hershey)
font files with your DAKOTA executable and have your users set the
environment variable PLPLOT_LIB.

The other alternative you mentioned, freetype, actually works very well for
our gd driver (which implements our png and jpeg devices using the gd
library).  It does use system fonts.  However, it does not yet work with
other devices (the associated drivers will need some rewriting to use it),
and you probably don't want to limit yourself just to the png and jpeg
devices.

Alan
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Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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