Re: [Plplot-general] plwidth fails to link under Cygwin against plplot5.9.10 libraries

[John B. <jrb...@co...>]

Hi Arjen,

   I took the step of placing the bin, include, 
and lib folders in a directory named 
/usr/local/plplot and I removed the plplot files 
everywhere else in /usr/local.  I think it was 
this cleanup that fixed the problem.  The program 
now runs beautifully with the line 'call 
plsdev(wingcc)'.  Thanks so much for your help!

Kind regards,
John


At 12:06 AM 1/20/2015, Arjen Markus wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>
>
>I have seen this type of behaviour under MinGW. 
>I still have to figure why this is happening there.
>
>
>
>What happens if you leave out the call to plsdev 
>and instead use the command-line option “–dev 
>wingcc”? I assume you use the routine 
>plparseopts like in all examples – that does the trick for me.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
>Arjen
>
>
>
>From: John Baumgardner [mailto:jrb...@co...]
>Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 6:53 PM
>To: Arjen Markus; Alan W. Irwin; John Baumgardner
>Cc: plp...@li...
>Subject: RE: [Plplot-general] plwidth fails to 
>link under Cygwin against plplot5.9.10 libraries
>
>Hi Alan and Arjen,
>
>    Thanks for that piece of information about 
> the f95 implementation not requiring the array 
> dimensions.  With that awareness, I was able 
> quickly to modify the f77 code to compile correctly.
>
>    However, I am now having difficulties when I 
> attempt to execute.  My executable is unable to 
> find the device drivers.  Here is the message I get:
>
>*** PLPLOT ERROR, ABORTING OPERATION ***
>plInitDispatchTable: Could not open drivers directory, aborting operation
>Requested device wingcc not available
>
>Plotting Options:
>
>Enter device number or keyword:
>
>   At the top of my main program, as implied by 
> this output, I have the line call plsdev('wingcc').
>
>    I copied the plplot dll and drivers 
> directories into the directory where I am 
> trying to execute, hoping that might resolve 
> the problem.  But it did not.  Any suggestions as to what I am missing?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>At 01:44 AM 1/19/2015, Arjen Markus wrote:
>
>
>Hi John,
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan W. Irwin [ mailto:ir...@be...]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 2:49 AM
> > To: John Baumgardner
> > Cc: 
> <mailto:plp...@li...>plp...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] plwidth fails 
> to link under Cygwin against plplot5.9.10
> > libraries
> >
> > However, the good news is I found what I 
> needed (circle.f and how you built it) to
> > figure out this problem which turns out not to be specific to Cygwin.
> >
> > > $ compile.sh
> > > circle.f:26.72:
> > >
> > >      call plline(n101,xx,yy)
> > >
> > > 1
> > > Error: There is no specific subroutine for the generic 'plline' at (1)
> >
>
>This is a typical message relating to the 
>available interfaces for plline. The thing is 
>that with Fortran 95 and beyond you can define a 
>single interface name to be applied to multiple 
>implementations. The compiler looks at the 
>actual argument list and decides to use the 
>implementation that matches that list (by number 
>of arguments and the type, kind and rank of 
>each). If it can not find any matching 
>implementation, it will respond with a message like the above.
>
>For the Fortran 95 bindings we have used the 
>features provided by that standard as much as 
>possible. One is that arrays ?know? their size. 
>So the routine plline queries the arrays xx and 
>yy for their size and there is no need to pass 
>the size explicitly. That method is actually rather error-prone.
>
>If you want to pass a section of the array only, you can use:
>
>Call plline( xx(1:10), yy(1:10) )
>
>For instance.
>
> > I verified that issue.  To solve it, I simply used the redacted form of
> > subroutine/function call with the redundant 
> dimension information dropped, i.e.,
> >
> > call plline(xx,yy)
> >
> > Note, it is quite a while since we have used 
> the f77 interface so my original advice to
> > you was incomplete about converting over to 
> f95.  I should have also added to the
> > "use plplot" advice that since we dropped 
> f77, our f95 capabilities and API have
> > evolved and, for example, we are now taking advantage of certain Fortran 95
> > capabilities like knowing the redundant array 
> dimensions.  So you have to use the
> > redacted form (like above with redundant 
> dimension information dropped) of all calls.
> >
> > When in doubt about exactly what the redacted 
> form is, look at files in examples/f95/
> > for working examples of all the calls to the PLplot Fortran binding API.
> >
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
>Arjen
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