Re: [Plplot-general] How to use PLplot on MS Windows

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

> Olof Svensson wrote:
> > So, in the short future, I think the best is to use Cygwin for compiling
> > and running plplot on MS Windows. Cygwin has the advantage that you
> > don't need to buy the rather expensive MS VC++. There are now some
> > problems when trying to compile plplot on Windows however I got the
> > impression that there are people looking into these issues.

I agree the cygwin platform has great potential, but we are not there yet.
Specifically, we have some near show-stopper issues with plplot-5.2.1 on
cygwin (and probably Mac OS X as well although I have received no reports
[pro or con] for that platform) because we used libtool-1.4.3 to generate
the plplot-5.2.1 tarball. The libtool-1.5 release announcement emphasizes
the much better cygwin and Mac OS X support of that version. Unfortunately,
libtool-1.5 has been temporarily withdrawn by the FSF because of all the
integrity checks they have to do after their ftp server was cracked, but
soon after libtool-1.5 is reinstated I plan to use it to generate a PLplot
tarball for testing on the cygwin and Mac OS X platforms.  Watch this space
for an announcement in the next week or so.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Arjen Markus wrote:

> I have not seen a win3 driver by the way in the distribution. Should I
> look for that in the CVS head?

See plplot-5.2.1/sys/win32/msdev/README.TXT for what to do.

>
> And I had some issues with the Linux version - I will write them up
> in detail, but where should I send that to?

There is no hard and fast rule.  However, generally speaking this list is
used for announcement and reasonably simple questions and answers for
ordinary PLplot users.  Use plplot-devel for matters where you want to
report more in-depth investigations.  The developers participate on both
lists so be sure and remember not to cross-post.

Alan
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