Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive test results for MingW-w64/MSYS2

[Greg J. <gv...@gm...>]

I've re-checked my plplot tree with cygwin which completed the
comprehensive test earlier,
it does not have an issue with the build.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...>
wrote:

> On 2015-07-14 18:30-0700 Greg Jung wrote:
>
>  I'm working on it, from my point of view (which includes examining the
>> "installed" perspective).
>> I've had now since I adopted Msys2, a well-working cmake system that
>> applies equally to mingw/msys,
>> mingw32/msys2, and mingw64/msys.  All with the standard cmake executable
>> and with only a few
>> module replacements.
>>
>
> Hi Greg:
>
> I appreciate your willingness to do more testing.  However, I frankly
> am guessing a bit about exactly what you meant above because of your
> notation for the various platforms and possibly a typographical error
> in your notation as well.  The problem with your notation is it is
> inconsistent with the actual properly capitalized names of the
> component projects which are MinGW, MSYS, MinGW-w64, and MSYS2. An
> additional complication is MinGW, and MSYS come only in 32-bit form
> while MinGW-w64, and MSYS2 come in both 32-bit and 64-bit form.  So I
> think the notation for the relevant combinations should be MinGW/MSYS
> for the classical platform you get when you use the MinGW installer
> mentioned in the wiki for the <sf.net/projects/mingw> project and the
> designation 32-bit or 64-bit MinGW-w64/MSYS2 for the platform you get
> when you use the MSYS2 "pacman" installer mentioned in the wiki for
> the <sf.net/projects/msys2> project.
>
> So I assume your mingw/msys is actually MinGW/MSYS, your mingw32/msys2
> is actually 32-bit MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and your mingw64/msys (although
> you probably meant to type mingw64/msys2) is actually 64-bit
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2.
>
> If that assumption is correct, and you really are already testing the
> "vanilla" 64-bit MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform as defined specifically
> above rather than some variant of that you got from elsewhere which
> likely does not have the popularity and heavy user testing that the
> vanilla version receives, then I am very interested in your
> comprehensive test report for that platform.
>
> As you know it typically takes several iterations to get such test
> reports perfected, but once that is done, and assuming you are still
> game for additional testing, then obtaining a perfected test report
> for the 32-bit version of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 should be worth doing as
> well.  But I strongly suggest you concentrate just on the 64-bit
> version of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 to start with to see how that goes.
>
>
> Alan
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