Re: [Plplot-devel] wingcc and wingdi build bugs

[Jim D. <ji...@di...>]

I think that is a Windows vs Windows 8. I will look at that today and patch. 

> On Dec 31, 2017, at 1:10 AM, Greg Jung <gv...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
>    Because my main PC (win 7) is busted I am working with a backup system which is windows 8.1 pro 32-bits
> and I was interested in deploying the new wingdi for GDL on windows.  Although no errors were anticipated from the
>  cmake processing (required setting  PLD_wingdi=ON) the build came up short finding a library:
>>> Scanning dependencies of target wingdi
>>> [ 67%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/wingdi.dir/wingdi.c.obj
>>> [ 67%] Linking C shared module ../dll/wingdi.dll
>>> CMakeFiles/wingdi.dir/objects.a(wingdi.c.obj):wingdi.c:(.text+0x1bb7): undefined reference to `_imp__InitCommonControlsEx@4'
>>> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/wingdi.dir/build.make:104: dll/wingdi.dll] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1263: drivers/CMakeFiles/wingdi.dir/all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2
> 
> I also found, although it isn't important for me downstream, that my QHULL installation was not found correctly. I checked where they were to be found, here is a partial listing of that:
>>> $ cat local/mingw-w64-i686-qhull-git-r157.f0bd8ce-1/files
>>> %FILES%
>>> mingw32/
>>> mingw32/bin/
>>> mingw32/bin/qconvex.exe
>>> mingw32/bin/qdelaunay.exe
>>> mingw32/bin/qhalf.exe
>>> mingw32/bin/qhull.exe
>>> mingw32/bin/qvoronoi.exe
>>> mingw32/bin/rbox.exe
>>> mingw32/include/
>>> mingw32/include/qhull/
>>> mingw32/include/qhull/geom.h
>>> mingw32/include/qhull/libqhull.h
>> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:
>> On 2017-10-06 11:00+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> Given that the libraries in question are in the standard c and C++
>>> libraries. I just tested to see what the impact is of simply
>>> commenting out the checks for these two libraries.
>>> 
>>> The result is that wingcc is accepted onto the driver list, appears in
>>> my plplot VC++ project, everything builds correctly and I can run the
>>> examples and select the wingcc device and everything runs fine.
>>> 
>>> Given that this is the case is there even a need to check for these
>>> libraries? Or is this test needed for Cygwin or minGW builds?
>> 
>> The present library finding has "just worked" for a long time for a
>> large variety of Windows users on many different Windows platforms so
>> I am somewhat reluctant to change it.  On the other hand, I guess it
>> is possible if you don't need it, then nobody needs it, but I am not
>> at all sure about that.  So before making any decisions here, I think
>> we need to collect more information.  For example, I would like you to
>> try 3.9.4 (see other thread concerning CMake versions) to see if this
>> particular problem persists (and also to determine whether CMake-3.9.4
>> satisfies all PLplot build-system needs for your Windows SDK version.)
>> 
>> 
>> Alan
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