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

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

On 2019-04-15 10:12-0600 Walt Brainerd wrote:

> Sorry A., I am using MSYS2 (or Cygwin).
> And I am not using the Visual Studio generator (at least
> I didn't intend to do so).
> I tried various -G options: "Unix Makefiles", etc. and got various
> error messages, so thought I would just try once without it (i.e.,
> the command as shown on the web site).
> The error messages listed a bunch of generators and "Unix
> Makefiles" seemed to be the only one in the list that made sense
> to me.
>
> I agree it must be my system that has a problem and I certainly
> did not think there was a problem with plplot on Windows, in general. I
> just don't know how to build it.
>
> If anyone can sen me a cmake command that works for either MSYS2
> or Cygwin

Hi Walt:

I agree, "Unix Makefiles" is your best choice for both Cygwin and MSYS2.

So to get you started try (from the bash shell which is available on both
platforms)

# Assuming you have unpacked the plplot-5.14.0 tarball in the directory plplot-5.14.0
cd plplot-5.14.0
mkdir build_dir
cd build_dir
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .. >& cmake.out
make VERBOSE=1 >& make.out

And send us the resulting cmake.out, make.out and CMakeCache.txt files.

Alan
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