Re: [Plplot-general] cygwin port, pdl and plplot

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

"Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> 

> Hi Bruno:
> 
> To clear up one thing that is confusing you, we have several different
> Windows platforms.  There is the Cygwin platform, the MinGW platform, and
> the raw Windows platform.  The first two are actually unix based so you can
> build PLplot with the normal Unix methods which most of our developers are
> familiar with. The raw platform is built following the specific rules in
> sys/win32/msdev/INSTALL.TXT.  I think it is fair to say that the raw
> platform is more mature than the Cygwin or MinGW platforms, but you need to
> buy a compiler to use the raw platform and development of that platform is
> slow because only one of our developers (Arjen) is familiar with that
> platform. The Cygwin and MinGW platforms are quickly maturing.  For example,
> we have just got shared libraries to work on them for the CVS version of
> PLplot.
> 
> The previous PDL-oriented message was about the prospects for a PDL PLplot
> interface on the raw windows platform, but I don't think anybody got it to
> work there. Also, I think you are the first to try PDL with Cygwin, but
> since that is a Unix system I would encourage you to continue with your
> efforts since there is a lot of Unix expertise on this list.  Also, our one
> developer (Rafael) who is familiar with Perl/PDL is more comfortable with
> Unix than windows.
> 
> >
> > Currently, Ii've succeed in installing plplot 5.5.3 but i can't pass the
> > "perl Makefile.PL;make;make test;make install" steps : (.
> > Actually I even don't know if I'm doint it in the good way...
> 
> Advice to every Unix user (including Bruno).
> 
> "./configure --help" is your friend.  The results of that command often help
> to guide you through the large number of different ./configure options
> (although often the default value of any option is the best choice). Also,
> if that command doesn't help you, please give the specifics of your problem
> to the list.  Here is how: save complete results in output files as in
> "./configure --various_options >& configure.out", "make >& make.out", "make
> install >& make_install.out", and send those *.out results to the list.
> 
> Good luck, Bruno, with sorting out how to build and use the Perl/PDL
> interface to PLplot on Cygwin.  I am sure it can be done, but you are the
> pioneer for that specific Unix platform.
> 

If it is any consolation, I (indeed the Arjen Alan refers to ;)) have
gained more experience with the Cygwin platform the last couple of
months.
And though I have not had time of late to solve a few of the remaining 
issues (real life and my regular job get in te way as with most of us),
I may be able to help.

Regards,

Arjen