Thread: [Plplot-general] Windows Visual Studio Port ?

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Hi!

Is there a port for Windows, eventually for Visual Studio
available ?

Thanks for any hints!

Dirk Engelmann

I am probably the least qualified in the core team to answer your question
since I have no windows experience, but I will take a shot since nobody
else has answered you.

In all honesty our principal current platform focus is Linux/Unix, but I
understand we did have decent windows support in the past, and if someone
wants to improve that, then we are happy to cooperate with them.

With a browser I would look at a cvs web view of what we have in
plplot/sys/win32.  (See
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/plplot/sys/win32/?cvsroot=plplot)
In particular I notice the file plplot/sys/win32/msdev/INSTALL.TXT which may
help to get you started.  Since plplot has substantially changed in the last
4 years I expect some tweaking will be required to get it working again on
windows.  If you do get it working, please give us your changes so we can
put them into the CVS so all windows users will benefit.

Some related projects which might be of interest to you.

One of our users has just brought sys/dos/DJGGP up to snuff, and those
changes should soon be in the CVS head.

A member of the core team got plplot to work well in a cygwin (Unix on top
of Windows, see http://www.cygwin.com/) environment last year.  His stuff is
currently not ready to go into the CVS HEAD, but when that happens it will
mean a significant broadening of our platform support.

Alan W. Irwin

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
__________________________

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dirk Engelmann wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Is there a port for Windows, eventually for Visual Studio
> available ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any hints!
> 
> Dirk Engelmann
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plplot-general mailing list
> Plp...@pl...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
> 

I don't personally use Windows much (most of my work is on Linux and
Compaq Unix) but one member of our group has compiled the snapshot 990122
to run under windows using Visual Studio and even included the fortran
support with Compaq Visual Fortran.  It hasn't been tested extensively but
everything that he has tried has worked.  If anyone is interested either
he or I can pass on his experience and hints on how to make it work.

Bryan Peterson
bry...@by...

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I am probably the least qualified in the core team to answer your question
> since I have no windows experience, but I will take a shot since nobody
> else has answered you.
> 
> In all honesty our principal current platform focus is Linux/Unix, but I
> understand we did have decent windows support in the past, and if someone
> wants to improve that, then we are happy to cooperate with them.
> 
> With a browser I would look at a cvs web view of what we have in
> plplot/sys/win32.  (See
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/plplot/sys/win32/?cvsroot=plplot)
> In particular I notice the file plplot/sys/win32/msdev/INSTALL.TXT which may
> help to get you started.  Since plplot has substantially changed in the last
> 4 years I expect some tweaking will be required to get it working again on
> windows.  If you do get it working, please give us your changes so we can
> put them into the CVS so all windows users will benefit.
> 
> Some related projects which might be of interest to you.
> 
> One of our users has just brought sys/dos/DJGGP up to snuff, and those
> changes should soon be in the CVS head.
> 
> A member of the core team got plplot to work well in a cygwin (Unix on top
> of Windows, see http://www.cygwin.com/) environment last year.  His stuff is
> currently not ready to go into the CVS HEAD, but when that happens it will
> mean a significant broadening of our platform support.
> 
> Alan W. Irwin
> 
> 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
> __________________________
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dirk Engelmann wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Is there a port for Windows, eventually for Visual Studio
> > available ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for any hints!
> > 
> > Dirk Engelmann
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plplot-general mailing list
> > Plp...@pl...
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
> > 
> 
> 
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Hello Bryan:

In any case I would urge your group member to upgrade to 5.0.1 (see the
5.0.1 file release at sourceforge.net/projects/plplot) since it is a much
more bug-fixed product than that old snapshot which we no longer support.

But beyond that it would be nice if they could provide me with a patch
between a clean tree (no created files such as binary objects or executables
and no CVS directories) of their results that has been upgraded to 5.0.1 and
a clean 5.0.1 tree.  If nothing else, the patch could consist of a file
telling how to get 5.0.1 installed on a current windows system, but I assume
there would be other changes to the sys/win32 tree as well. I would be
willing to facilitate getting that patch into our CVS so other windows users
could benefit from your group member's work.

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
__________________________

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Bryan Peterson wrote:

> I don't personally use Windows much (most of my work is on Linux and
> Compaq Unix) but one member of our group has compiled the snapshot 990122
> to run under windows using Visual Studio and even included the fortran
> support with Compaq Visual Fortran.  It hasn't been tested extensively but
> everything that he has tried has worked.  If anyone is interested either
> he or I can pass on his experience and hints on how to make it work.
> 
> Bryan Peterson
> bry...@by...

On 2001.01.30 17:45:04 -0500 Bryan Peterson wrote:
> I don't personally use Windows much (most of my work is on Linux and
> Compaq Unix) but one member of our group has compiled the  
> to run under windows using Visual Studio and even included the fortran
> support with Compaq Visual Fortran.  It hasn't been tested extensively
> but
> everything that he has tried has worked.  If anyone is interested either
> he or I can pass on his experience and hints on how to make it work.

Well, persoanlly I'm also using Linux ...
The main help would be to have the driver for the graphics (screen) output
in windows,
where there is only a dos-driver as far as I noticed.
If I could take the makefile (.dsw) of snapshot 990122 visual studio, I
could try
to get it running for 5.0.1.

Thanks for all the help!

Regards,
Dirk

> Bryan Peterson
> bry...@by...
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> > I am probably the least qualified in the core team to answer your
> question
> > since I have no windows experience, but I will take a shot since nobody
> > else has answered you.
> > 
> > In all honesty our principal current platform focus is Linux/Unix, but
> I
> > understand we did have decent windows support in the past, and if
> someone
> > wants to improve that, then we are happy to cooperate with them.
> > 
> > With a browser I would look at a cvs web view of what we have in
> > plplot/sys/win32.  (See
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/plplot/sys/win32/?cvsroot=plplot)
> > In particular I notice the file plplot/sys/win32/msdev/INSTALL.TXT
> which may
> > help to get you started.  Since plplot has substantially changed in the
> last
> > 4 years I expect some tweaking will be required to get it working again
> on
> > windows.  If you do get it working, please give us your changes so we
> can
> > put them into the CVS so all windows users will benefit.
> > 
> > Some related projects which might be of interest to you.
> > 
> > One of our users has just brought sys/dos/DJGGP up to snuff, and those
> > changes should soon be in the CVS head.
> > 
> > A member of the core team got plplot to work well in a cygwin (Unix on
> top
> > of Windows, see http://www.cygwin.com/) environment last year.  His
> stuff is
> > currently not ready to go into the CVS HEAD, but when that happens it
> will
> > mean a significant broadening of our platform support.
> > 
> > Alan W. Irwin
> > 
> > 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
> > __________________________
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dirk Engelmann wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Is there a port for Windows, eventually for Visual Studio
> > > available ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any hints!
> > > 
> > > Dirk Engelmann
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Plplot-general mailing list
> > > Plp...@pl...
> > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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