Re: [Plplot-devel] qhull import library and corresponding dll missing for MinGW-w64/MSYS2

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan, Greg,



Thanks for the report - I will see to reporting this on the relevant mailing list. I have version r151.5bbc756-1 installed.



Regards,



Arjen



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 2:09 AM
> To: Greg Jung; Arjen Markus
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: qhull import library and corresponding dll missing for MinGW-w64/MSYS2
>
> On 2017-12-30 22:10-0800 Greg Jung wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
>
> [...]
>
> Hi Greg:
>
> Thanks for that report of your qhull find troubles on the MinGW-w64/MSYS platform.
> The rest of this is addressed to Arjen (or anyone else here with interest in the
> important qhull component of our plgriddata API on that platform) because I think
> he is going to encounter those same troubles soon.
>
> @Arjen:
>
> Your latest latest (2017-08-17) successful test of the mingw64 version of MinGW-
> w64/MSYS2 shows the following qhull-related find results:
>
> -- Found QHULL: D:/mingw64-2/mingw64/include
> -- QHULL_INCLUDE_DIRS = D:/mingw64-2/mingw64/include
> -- HAS_LIBQHULL_INCLUDE = OFF
> -- QHULL_LIBRARIES = D:/mingw64-2/mingw64/lib/libqhull.dll.a
> -- QHULL_RPATH =
>
> So all *was* well in that case.
>
> However, it appears there is qhull trouble ahead for you just like Greg has
> encountered.  Note that the above import library and corresponding dll is available
> for both <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qhull-git-
> r113.60d5581-3-any.pkg.tar.xz>
> and
> <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qhull-git-r151.5bbc756-1-
> any.pkg.tar.xz>,
> but they are not available for the latest version,
> <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qhull-git-r157.f0bd8ce-1-
> any.pkg.tar.xz>.
> and the corresponding latest 32-bit version,
> <http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/mingw-w64-i686-qhull-git-r157.f0bd8ce-1-
> any.pkg.tar.xz>
> that Greg used.  So when you update to that latest 64-bit version of the qhull library
> for MinGW-w64/MSYS2 I assume you will run into the same issue that Greg has
> encountered, and when that occurs you should follow up with an error report to the
> MSYS2 list concerning that missing import library and dll situation for their latest
> qhull package.
>
> Alan
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