[Plplot-devel] wingcc and wingdi build bugs

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

To Phil, Jim, and Arjen:

On 2017-10-04 12:11+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:

> For some reason I cannot build wingcc or wingdi, they do not come up
> as enabled on my system when I run cmake. I have never looked into why
> as I don't use them.

But all members of the PLplot development team should be concerned if
wingcc (a workhorse interactive device that has been around a long
time and which presumably builds on most Windows platforms) does not
build on your particular Windows platform.  Because other users also
have that same platform, and they may need access to wingcc (and
wingdi).  So please follow up with a complete bug report here
(preferably) or on the bug tracker including all relevant information
about your Windows platform and the exact build error.  And similarly
for the wingdi case (although that has not been around as long as
wingcc it is based on it so it may have a common build problem on your
particular Windows platform).  Arjen or Jim (both with a lot
of Windows experience) might be able to quickly resolve the issue
you are encountering.

You might also want to look at
https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/support-requests/44/
(which is in the support-request category, but it is really
a bug report).  That user was having trouble building wingdi
on "Cygwin 64 (CYGWIN_NT-10.0) on Winows 10 (64-bit)".  But for
that same platform he built wingcc with no issues.

@Jim:

You obviously had a lot of discussion with this user concerning his
wingdi build bug including sending him patches to try, but it seemed
to trail off at the end with nothing resolved with regard to the
wingdi build bug on his platform.  What needs to be done to get this
issue resolved?

Alan
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