Re: [Plplot-general] Old version of plplot

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

On 2004-12-17 14:00+0100 S=E9bastien Villemot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to recompile a scientific software which uses a
> very old version of plplot (around 1992-1994). The software can be found
> here:
> http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/dquah/tsrf.html

For the others here, that appears to be an application written in C.

>
> I've tried to recompile it with a recent version of plplot (5.3.1), but
> plplot complained about plinit() not having been called, and several
> other things.
>
> I think the simplest way would be to get the source tarball of plplot
> that the author initially used for his software; unfortunately, he
> doesn't provide it anymore.

S=E9bastien, I think the best way to deal with this problem is to change th=
at
old application code to be compatible with the modern PLplot library.  If
you follow the documentation at
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.3.1/ (especially
Chapter 2 which will give you some ideas about initializing PLplot and=20
Chapter 16 which documents the modern API), I think that task will be
entirely straightforward.  Also, I suggest you look at some of our many
examples (in examples/c) for guidance about how to call the PLplot C
library.

If you have any specific questions about a modern equivalent to some old
PLplot call, don't hesitate to post your question to this list.

Good luck!

Alan
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