[Plplot-devel] breakthrough in porting plplot to MS Windows: DLL generated

[Joachim W. <wu...@cr...>]

I succeeded in generating a shared library
under Win2000 with Visual Studio C++ 6.0
(as opposed to the static library generated
by the makefiles of the current plplot
distribution 5.1.0). This is certainly a
breakthrough in making plplot acceptable
for industrial applications.

There was not one single clue to the problem:
I just had to overcome a number of misunderstandings,
and to change a very few lines in the code. I have
still think about how to document my experiences.

To start, I will answer some of the questions I posed
in the course of the last ten days, and pose some new
questions to the maintainers of plplot. To facilitate
later search in the archive, I will break my feedback
into a couple of short mailings. Stay tuned.

- Joachim