Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPlot on MS Windows

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

Hi Alan,

I'm happy to try to get the latest cvs plplot version working under
win32. When are you planning to release a new stable release of plplot?

Regards,

Olof


"Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> > Hello Olof:
> >
> > Our windows expertise is limited so we welcome any help we can get with the
> > windows platform for plplot.  So thanks very much for your patches to the
> > two files. They are isolated to the win32 directory and only a few lines so
> > unless any expert here (which I don't pretend to be) sees a problem, I will
> > put them into cvs.
> 
> I have thought better of immediately putting this patch into CVS.  The
> current cvs version of PLplot is different from 5.0.4 in that a mechanism
> has been introduced to allow dynamically loaded drivers.  The old static
> method is still available as well, but I am not sure whether or not anything
> extra will have to be done in the win32 tree to continue to use the static
> method. Anyhow, Olof, would you be willing to try out the plplot cvs version
> under w2k?  If the required changes to get it working are as simple as in
> the 5.0.4 case, I will be happy to put those changes into the CVS version.
> Such effort would be well worthwhile since I am planning to bring out a new
> stable release of plplot in the near future based on the current CVS
> version, and it would be nice for me to be able to state that you have
> introduced changes to make it work under w2k.
> 
> To get the latest cvs version of plplot follow the anonymous cvs
> instructions at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915.  For the second
> cvs command, "modulename" should be plplot.  The result will be a directory
> tree called plplot in your current directory so make sure nothing in your
> current directory is called plplot before you invoke that second command.
> 
> I am also most interested (for both 5.0.4 and the present cvs version) whether
> you can build all the test plots using plplot-test.sh under w2k.
> 
> Alan