Re: [Plplot-devel] How to Build PLplot to use with Tcl-tk

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Vince Darley wrote:

> Sorry, my last msg was nonsense.  You will need to rebuild the Plplotter
> package for tcl-tk, using the makefile.vc in sys/win-tk.  You will also
> need to edit the plDevs.h file in that directory to enable the drivers you
> want (jpeg), and you will need to make sure any additional libraries and
> header files needed by that driver are accessible.  Only then can you do
> what I suggested in my previous email.
>

I believe sys/win-tk is for a cygwin environment, but could Vince confirm
this please?  If my assumption is true, then sys/win-tk is the recommended
way to get plplot working for cygwin on windows now. (Of course,
sys/win32/msdev/ is the recommended way to get plplot working on "bare"
windows.)

The other much more general method I was discussing for configuring and
building plplot on cygwin uses the same method (configure; make; make
install in the top-level directory) that works on Linux and Unix now.
Unfortunately, the general method doesn't work at the moment for cygwin, but
there is hope in 6 months or so that it will for the reasons I discussed.

I have no cygwin experience myself, but the impression I get from my reading
about the autotools-cygwin problem over the last few days is there is a very
strong effort to port everything in Linux into the cygwin environment.  So
again on a time scale of 6 months or so you may find everything you need
(libgd, libpng, libjpeg, and zlib) already ported to the cygwin environment
which should allow you to produce png and jpeg plots as a matter of routine
in that environment.

Alan

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