Re: [Plplot-general] installation w/ Windows and mingw

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

On 2013-03-05 22:21-0000 Owens, Thomas wrote:

> I am attempting to install plplot on a Windows7 box with MinGW.
> I have installed MinGW 4.6.2.
> I have installed plplot-5.0.1.
>
> When I call >cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..
>
> I get a CMake Error: The source directory "C:/Users/mv1/Downloads/plplot-5.0.1" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

5.0.1 is the source of the trouble since it is such an ancient version
of PLplot that its build system was not CMake-based at all.

Instead of downloading PLplot-5.0.1 (released 2001-01-13), download
the latest release of PLplot (5.9.9, released on 2011-10-13).  Also, I
have recently had a lot of success with CMake-2.8.10.2 (the latest
CMake) and MinGW-4.7.0, the latest MinGW version that I have tried so
far. So I suggest you also use CMake-2.8.10.2 and the latest MinGW
(which is now 4.7.2).  You can conveniently and easily install that
latest MinGW version and all its dependencies using the installer at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20120426/

Alan
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