[Plplot-general] installing Plplot on WinXP

[luca s. <lu...@li...>]

hello,

i would like to install the PLplot library v.5.3.0 on a WindowsXP
machine, so to use it with Perl-PDL.
i tried following the instructions in INSTALL.txt, so I downloaded the
free  MSVisual C++ toolbox 2003 and started compiling.
i found there were some errors in the makefile, but I was able to go on.

the problem that really stooped me is that when compiling some headers
file are missing: windows.h, winbase.h, windef.h etc.
I thought they should be there in the package i downloaded, but they
were missing.
so I had a look on google and i found something like the above .h is
contained in a cygwin package, the win32api package.
i downloaded it and i tried using that header files, but it doesn't work.

does anybody know how to solve the problem?
does anyone succeded in get the PLplot working on WinXP?

kind regards, luca sguanci.