Re: [Plplot-general] Plplot on Mingw

[Walt B. <wal...@gm...>]

Yes, it appears that this is a little complicated.
I build static, but linking an application was missing
a bunch of stuff.

One more (last?) question:

Do you have an idea why I get only the 6 drivers, when
I get more building on Cygwin?

I am happy with what I have, so thanks again for all the
advice. I found Inkscape, which will convert to some
more formats.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...>
wrote:

> On 2014-11-28 13:02-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote:
>
>  SUCCESS!
>>
>
> Good!
> [...]
>
>> Another question: if I (or you) provide this install directory as a
>> Windows binary distribution, how many systems do you think it
>> would work on?
>>
>
> Good question!
>
> To avoid dependency hell (which is likely the fundamental constraint
> on how many different Windows platforms a binary distribution of
> PLplot would work on) you would want to (1) build and install PLplot
> with internal static libraries that are (2) linked to static versions
> of external libraries, and likely (3) using a static run-time as well
> (although I am not sure on that point, and "real" Windows users should
> chime in here).  (1) is already implemented; you simply specify
> -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF as a cmake command-line option.  I think (2)
> and (3) are possible with our CMake-based build system, but no PLplot
> developer has yet investigated what CMake options are required (or
> what other steps you have to do) to implement these features.  If you
> are interested further, I would be willing to ask about these issues
> on the CMake list.
>
> Once you know how to deal with issue (2) and possibly (3), then cmake
> provides fairly sophisticated facilities to create binary
> distributions from the contents of the install tree.
>
>
> Alan
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-- 
Walt Brainerd