Re: [Plplot-general] Help building plplot

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

Thanks again Arjen.

Stupidity:   I simply omitted the -G option.
Unfortunately, using it ("Unix Makefiles") produced the same result.

Ignorance: Using the cygwin "make" produced the following (I assume
crt_externs.h is some cygwin
file, but I don't know how/where to get it without installing all of cygwin
(days worth of downloading), but
will do that if nothing else works.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 3:09 PM Walt Brainerd <wal...@gm...>
wrote:

> Thanks Arjen for the suggestions. I always learn something from you.
> However, I still can't get where I want.
>
> With the plplot that comes with Msys2, execution hangs awaiting input.
> If I type "1", it produces output on the screen. Also -dev works (Arjen).
>
> Trying to build plplot with msys produces similar (or worse) results.
>
> Trying build with cygwin, cmake produces the following lines multiple
> times.
>
> $ "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Cmake/bin/cmake.exe"
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -DENABLE_cxx=OFF -DENABLE_cxx=OFF
> -DENABLE_qt=OFF ../plplot.git >& cmake.out
>
> -- Configuring done
> CMake Error in bindings/fortran/CMakeLists.txt:
>   Evaluation file to be written multiple times with different content.
> This
>   is generally caused by the content evaluating the configuration type,
>   language, or location of object files:
>
>    C:/walt/Software/Plplot/BUILD/bindings/fortran/
> plplotfortran_ifort.def.sh
>
> I am using the latest cmake (3.16.2) and the latest plplot. cygwin does not
> have the latest Fortran compiler, but that shouldn't be a problem, should
> it?
> cmake.out is attached.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. OW, I will just use the flaky msys plplot.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Walt Brainerd
>


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Walt Brainerd