[Plplot-devel] plplot under W2000

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

Hi Olof,

after a hard disk crash I had the unexpected pleasure to install
once again plplot under W2000. Compared to the first time five
months ago it has become much easier to go through the installation
procedure and to obtain working examples. Thank you in particular
for the very clear documentation.

Could you please have a look at the following questions and
suggestions:

(1) I suggest two little changes to INSTALL.TXT:

  4.1 Open a MS-DOS prompt window (compilation in a Cygwin window
      will not normally work because of incompatible header files).   =20
  4.2 At the command prompt, type "vcvars32" to set environment
      for MS Visual C++ tools (vcvars32.bat is contained in the
      Visual C++ binary directory).
  4.3 Change directory to plplot\sys\win32\msdev
  ...

(2) The step "nmake plplib.mak" works only once !! If I try to repeat
this step, I get the following error message:
    No configuration specified. Defaulting to plplib - Win32 Debug.
    Warning: cannot find "plplib.dep"
What's happening ?

(3) Which is the easiest way to generate a double-precision plplotd.lib =
?

(4) What is the status of plpdll ?

Thanks for any help - Joachim