Re: [Plplot-devel] Cross-compilation of PLplot

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

On 2022-02-23 07:23-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sebastian Ehlert asked me about cross-compilation of PLplot for different platforms as part of cond-forge/plplot-feedstock. He found out that this needs to be done in two steps, one to build the auxiliary programs for use on the native platform and the second for the actual cross-compilation. Does anyone have experience with this? What procedure would you recommend? Is there an easy way to make this build scenario easier?

Hi Arjen:

Andrew Ross got cross-compilation to work (with some limitations) back
in 2009.  I suggest if you haven't done so already you review that
mailing list thread (which you can find with a subject line search for
"cross compilation" in the plplot_devel mailing list archive at SF).

Andrew commented in that thread that he had documented some of his
cross-compilation experiences in our old wiki.  All the contents of
that old wiki were transferred to our SF wiki back when I established
that SF wiki so his (dated) documentation/comments about
cross-compilation should be accessible at our SF wiki.  Indeed, if you
search there, there are 7 wiki pages that mention "cross" so if you
follow up on those hits (which I did not) I assume you will find what
Andrew (and others?) wrote about cross compilation back in 2009 or so.

Of course, if you make some modern progress with cross-compilation,
please update the SF wiki accordingly following the wiki update
procedure in README.developers.

Cheers,

Alan

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Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
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software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project
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and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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