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

From: Pankaj L. <pa...@da...> - 2002-12-20 15:49:15

Hi,

I am using PLplot 5.1.0 along with tcl-tk on windows NT. I want PLplot to
support jpeg format as one of its File output device format as mentioned in the
user document.

I tried my luck by browsing on plplot mailing list to figure out how can this be
done but without much success?

Can anyone help me with the procedure to rebuild Plplot on windows NT? I would
like to use Plplot with JPEG format support with tcl-tk as development language.

Thanks.

Pankaj.

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

From: Vince D. <vi...@sa...> - 2002-12-20 15:58:29

I believe that version already comes with jpeg support in its 'gd'
library, and (assuming you downloaded the binary from my web page) it is
compiled in.  You can test this with:

package require Plplotter
plframe .p
pack .p
.p cmd plsdev jpeg

which should not throw an error.  Assuming this is the case, you can use
whatever standard Plplot functions you like, or edit the .tcl scripts
which come with Plplot to provide a more seamless menu-based saving of
jpegs.

cheers,

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>


On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Pankaj Laddha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using PLplot 5.1.0 along with tcl-tk on windows NT. I want PLplot to
> support jpeg format as one of its File output device format as mentioned in the
> user document.
>
> I tried my luck by browsing on plplot mailing list to figure out how can this be
> done but without much success?
>
> Can anyone help me with the procedure to rebuild Plplot on windows NT? I would
> like to use Plplot with JPEG format support with tcl-tk as development language.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pankaj.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Plplot-devel] How to Build PLplot to use with Tcl-tk

From: Vince D. <vi...@sa...> - 2002-12-20 16:52:07

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.

[NB: I just committed a fixed makefile.vc to cvs]

cheers,

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>

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

From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2002-12-20 18:34:35

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

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
__________________________

Linux-powered astrophysics
__________________________

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

From: Vince D. <vi...@sa...> - 2002-12-20 18:40:16

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.

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

From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2002-12-20 17:20:41

Hello Pankaj:

You may not be aware of this, but your cross-posting to both plplot_general
and plplot_devel is an annoyance to those who are subscribed to both lists
since we see your posts twice.

My own feeling is you are asking fairly technical questions so your posts
should go to plplot_devel only.

With regard to the content of your particular message, I would know exactly
how to answer you in a Linux environment.  You need libgd, libpng, libjpeg,
and zlib in order to compile the gd.c device driver (which implements the
png and jpeg devices).

The problem with the Plplot windows environment is it is only supported by
one guy (Olof Svensson, who is subscribed to plplot_devel, but is not part
of the core team because of lack of time on his part.) The primary focus of
plplot core development team is oriented toward the Unix/Linux side, and
Olof keeps up as well as he can on the windows side in his spare time.  So
you may have to figure out for yourself how to get the gd device implemented
in that environment.  The first step would be to create libgd for the
windows environment.  For instructions on that, see
http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.9.html.

If you don't have the time/skills to do that, then there is hope for you in
about another 6 months or so. The natural way to get access to all the
Unix/Linux side developments (such as the gd device driver) in windows is to
use the new configuration scheme to build plplot in a cygwin environment.
(Cygwin is a free implementation of Unix for windows.) Unfortunately, that
does not quite work yet because of current incompatibilities between
autotools and cygwin. We are very close, since everything compiles on Cygwin
without problems, but there seems to be a linking problem which lots of
other projects have also encountered. Since both autotools and cygwin are
developed by the FSF, and people are clamoring for a simple solution, I
fully expect that situation to be resolved on a fairly short time scale.
Thus, I am planning to try testing it again in 6 months or so.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
__________________________

Linux-powered astrophysics
__________________________

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

From: Pankaj L. <pa...@da...> - 2002-12-23 12:39:16

Hello Alan,

Thanks for the reply.

I am extremely sorry for all the inconvenience caused due to cross posting of
the message.

I am sure I can figure out how to create "libgd" as mentioned in your message.
But I am not able to use the existing source code of Plplot to make dlls with
default drivers. When I build the dlls and try to load the plplotter package in
tcl, it gives me "could not find procedure Plplotter_Init" error. It seems some
of the source files are missing. I have Plplot 5.1.0 version. Do you have any
idea what is missing?

Any clues how to build the Plplot with default drivers on windows with tcl
bindings.

Regards,
Pankaj.


----- Original Message -----
From: Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...>
To: Pankaj Laddha <pa...@da...>
Cc: PLplot development list <Plp...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] How to Build PLplot to use with Tcl-tk


> Hello Pankaj:
>
> You may not be aware of this, but your cross-posting to both plplot_general
> and plplot_devel is an annoyance to those who are subscribed to both lists
> since we see your posts twice.
>
> My own feeling is you are asking fairly technical questions so your posts
> should go to plplot_devel only.
>
> With regard to the content of your particular message, I would know exactly
> how to answer you in a Linux environment.  You need libgd, libpng, libjpeg,
> and zlib in order to compile the gd.c device driver (which implements the
> png and jpeg devices).
>
> The problem with the Plplot windows environment is it is only supported by
> one guy (Olof Svensson, who is subscribed to plplot_devel, but is not part
> of the core team because of lack of time on his part.) The primary focus of
> plplot core development team is oriented toward the Unix/Linux side, and
> Olof keeps up as well as he can on the windows side in his spare time.  So
> you may have to figure out for yourself how to get the gd device implemented
> in that environment.  The first step would be to create libgd for the
> windows environment.  For instructions on that, see
> http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.9.html.
>
> If you don't have the time/skills to do that, then there is hope for you in
> about another 6 months or so. The natural way to get access to all the
> Unix/Linux side developments (such as the gd device driver) in windows is to
> use the new configuration scheme to build plplot in a cygwin environment.
> (Cygwin is a free implementation of Unix for windows.) Unfortunately, that
> does not quite work yet because of current incompatibilities between
> autotools and cygwin. We are very close, since everything compiles on Cygwin
> without problems, but there seems to be a linking problem which lots of
> other projects have also encountered. Since both autotools and cygwin are
> developed by the FSF, and people are clamoring for a simple solution, I
> fully expect that situation to be resolved on a fairly short time scale.
> Thus, I am planning to try testing it again in 6 months or so.
>
> Alan
>
> email: ir...@be...
> phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715
> snail-mail:
> Dr. Alan W. Irwin
> Department of Physics and Astronomy,
> University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
> __________________________
>
> Linux-powered astrophysics
> __________________________

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

From: Vince D. <vi...@sa...> - 2002-12-23 14:00:02

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Pankaj Laddha wrote:
> Any clues how to build the Plplot with default drivers on windows with tcl
> bindings.

Get the latest 'cvs HEAD' of plplot from sourceforge (I made some fixes
today), then:

cd plplot/sys/win-tk
nmake -f makefile.vc
nmake -f makefile.vc install

Vince.

[Plplot-devel] Problem in building Shared libraries on Solaris

From: Pankaj L. <pa...@da...> - 2003-01-23 06:06:55

Hi All,

I am using plplot version 5.1.0. I am trying to build shared libraries on
Solaris. I want shared library with tcl/tk support. When I
give --enable-tcl, --with-shlib options to "configure", I am getting

"Checking how to build shared libraries...: Unknown"

message. Also, in the output log of "configure" I observe "enable_tcl=No".

Can anybody help me to resolve these problems?

Thanks for any help.

-Pankaj.