Re: [Plplot-general] Plplot in Msys2

[Walt B. <wal...@gm...>]

Things have changed a bit with my tinkering.

Pls ignore the statements about the examples--all bogus.
I do have 5.15.0 in my Msys2.

When I compile in an Msys window, ./a just hangs. If I type a "1",
the graph is generated on the screen. The display options usually
do not show up at all.

When I compile with exactly the same compiler in a Windows
command window, it executes and terminates immediately with
no output.

Apparently running an Msys terminal sets something that helps,,
but it is still not right.

If this suggests anything to anybody, please let me know.
In the meantime, I will try to build plplot from source.

I have no confidence that it is the fault of Msys, given my
lack of expertise about all this, so am reluctant to submit
a bug. But maybe I will if I can my own build to work.

Thanks.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:25 PM Alan W. Irwin <Ala...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 2019-12-23 14:40-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I see the Fortran examples [for official MSYS2 package version] are
> quite different, but I did use the latest.
> > Why were they rewritten?
> [...]
>
> Hi Walt:
>
> The Fortran examples were historically rewritten a long time ago but
> not any time recently.  Therefore, I am virtually positive you are
> seeing an old version of the PLplot fortran examples because you have
> accessed an old official MSYS2 package version of PLplot.
>
> What happens if you do a general update of your MSYS2 platform
> following the [MSYS2 instructions for doing
> that](https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/MSYS2-installation)?  My bet
> is you will then have access to the latest official packaged version
> of PLplot which is our latest release (5.15.0).
>
> By the way, we are normally quite happy with the MSYS2 platform for
> PLplot.  For example, as part of the 5.15.0 pre-release testing, Arjen
> has had good Fortran (and much other) success on MSYS2 with a PLplot
> version that he built himself.  However, as far as I know he has never
> tested the official MSYS2 PLplot package there which has been packaged
> by the principal packager for MSYS2 (alexpux) who is familiar with
> MSYS2 but not PLplot.  So if it turns out that official MSYS2 packaged
> version of PLplot-5.15.0 does not work, you should prepare a bug
> report for MSYS2 and revert to using a 5.15.0 version that you built
> yourself on MSYS2 just to follow closely what Arjen did for his test.
> And with any luck at all, you should be able to replicate Arjen's
> Fortran success with that method.
>
> Alan
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Walt Brainerd