Re: [Plplot-general] Building plplot on Windows 10

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2019-04-14 15:54-0600 Walt Brainerd wrote:

> I am trying again without success to build plplot on Windows.
>
> cmake.exe -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ../plplot.git >& cmake.out
>
> produces
>
>    Build FAILED.
>
>
> "C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj"
> (default target) (1) ->
>
> C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj(14,2):
> error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was
> not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct,
> and that the file exists on disk.
>
> That file (of course?) does not exist in the C directory.
> Help please for someone who does not know much about C++ or cmake.
> I just want to build it to use it with Fortran. I can use Cygwin or MSYS.
> Thanks.

I can't help you with platform specifics since I don't have good access to any
Windows platform other than Wine, and current Wine bugs stop
me from trying out either MinGW-w64/MSYS2 or Cygwin on that platform.

However, I do want to make the comment that in general, PLplot users
have good luck with it on Windows.  This claim is based on the fact
that roughly half our users use various Windows platforms yet from the
lack of complaints (other than yours) they appear to be having success
with PLplot.  Furthermore, Arjen's extensive tests of the Cygwin,
MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and MSVC platforms give good results in general.  So
my guess is whatever the issue is for you, it is likely a small unique
one related to how your platform is configured to build software
rather than any general problem with PLplot on Windows.

Note, we do not support MSYS since the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 project has
long superseded that.  But to help find the source of what appear to
be unique problems in your case please do give extensive details
(e.g., much more than above such as a full CMake cache file, full
cmake output, full build output) for your Cygwin platform.  And also
please try to install MinGW-w64/MSYS2 following the well-documented
steps at <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki> and give us detailed
PLplot configuration and build results for that case as well.

I assume once you give those details on one or both of those
well-tested platforms, other PLplot users here with access to those
platforms should be able to weigh in on what might be specifically
wrong in your case.

Alan
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