Re: [Plplot-general] Working on PLplot 5.14 and gtk-fortran interfacing...

[Vincent M. <vin...@po...>]

Hi Alan,

I can also today report that gtk-fortran / PLplot is running OK on these 
virtual machines:

- Gentoo 201808 KDE: gfortran 7.3.0, PLplot 5.14 built with CMake,

- Manjaro 18.0.2: gfortran 8.2.1, PLplot 5.14 built with CMake,

- openSUSE 15.0: gfortran 7.3.1, PLplot 5.13.

> It is great that all those different platforms are working.  However, 
> I suggest
> you should build PLplot-5.14.0 (similar to your Sid approach) on each 
> of these
> platforms (including FreeBSD 12.0) to take advantage of the large 
> number of
> PLplot bug fixes that have occurred for that version compared to 
> previous versions.

On FreeBSD 12.0, it was more difficult to build PLplot 5.14 with Fortran 
support because at first CMake did not find gfortran which is named 
gfortran8. Finally I have succeeded using:

$ export FC=/usr/local/bin/gfortran8
$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/osboxes/myplplot ../plplot-5.14.0

Then gtk-fortran was built successfully using:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/osboxes/myplplot/lib/pkgconfig cmake -D 
CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER:FILEPATH="/usr/local/bin/gfortran8" ..

All the gtk-fortran PLplot examples run OK in FreeBSD. That's great !

Best regards

Vincent