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

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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.)

No, win-tk is for Windows.  Going to that directory and typing:

nmake -f makefile.vc
nmake -f makefile.vc install

will build and install the 'Plplotter' extension to Tcl/Tk so that it can
be used from any conventional tcl,tk installation on Windows.

It is nothing to do with cygwin at all.

The difference to 'msdev' is that that stuff builds standalone versions of
plplot (I think) which have nothing in common with tcl,tk.

The problem with compiling anything using cygwin is that to run it, you
also need to have cygwin (not much use if you want to distribute your
software to other people), unless you use some sort of '-mno-cygwin' flag
to gcc, but that just complicates things more.

cheers,

Vince.