[Plplot-devel] PLPlot on MS Windows

[Olof S. <sve...@es...>]

Dear Alan,

I'm working with Alessandro Mirone on the PyQt port of plplot.
I'm trying to compile plplot version 5.0.4 on Windows 2000 using MS
Visual Studio 6.0. I ran into several problems however I succeeded
finally to build the package and use the win3 device. I have listed
at the end of this message some of the patches I had to do to 
plplot.h in order to compile the plplot.lib win32 library (if you
are interested I can provide a complete list of patches.)

I'd like to know if the win32 port of plplot is still supported.

Best regards,

Olof Svensson

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plplot-5.0.4, patch to plplot/sys/win32/msdev/src/plplot.h:

< #define PLESC_DOUBLEBUFFERING 15      /* configure double buffering */
< #define PLESC_XORMOD          16      /* jc: set xor mode */
< #define PLESC_SET_COMPRESSION 17      /* AFR: set compression */
< #define PLESC_CLEAR           18      /* RL: clear graphics region */
< #define PLESC_DASH            19      /* RL: draw dashed line */
< #define PLESC_HAS_TEXT                20      /* jc: driver draws text */

< c_plshade(PLFLT **a, PLINT nx, PLINT ny, PLINT (*defined) (PLFLT, PLFLT),
---
> c_plshade(PLFLT **a, PLINT nx, PLINT ny, const char **defined,

< c_plshade1(PLFLT *a, PLINT nx, PLINT ny, PLINT (*defined) (PLFLT, PLFLT),
---
> c_plshade1(PLFLT *a, PLINT nx, PLINT ny, const char *defined,


patches to plplot/sys/win32/msdev/src/win3.cpp:

<        wndclass.hbrBackground = (struct HBRUSH__ *)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
---
>        wndclass.hbrBackground = GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);

<                 if( SetAbortProc( dev->hdc, (int(__stdcall *)(struct HDC__ *,int))AbortProc ) ==
SP_ERROR ) {
---
>                 if( SetAbortProc( dev->hdc, (int(__stdcall *)(void))AbortProc ) == SP_ERROR ) {