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Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows
This page presents an overview of the various Windows platforms and the status of the CBS for them.
The platforms are "canonical": we assume typical or often encountered installations. For "bare Windows" this means Windows XP, Microsoft Visual C/C++ (version 2013 and newer). For Cygwin and MinGW this is the suite of GCC compilers. Since 64 bits platforms are the standard, we report the results for the 64-bits versions of all platforms. For MinGW in particular we use the newer MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform.
Status per 2 October 2017, Arjen Markus, Werner Smekal and Hazen Babcock
| Library options | Bare Windows | Cygwin 64 | MinGW-w64/MSYS2 | Borland 5.5 | Open Watcom 1.5 (1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static libraries | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shared libraries (DLL) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic drivers | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Freetype support | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| QHull support | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| AGG support | Yes | . | Yes | . | . |
| Shapelib support | . | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Languages | Bare Windows | Cygwin 64 | MinGW-w64/MSYS2 | Borland 5.5 | Open Watcom 1.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| C++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No(2) |
| D (3) | . | . | . | . | . |
| Fortran 2003 (4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Java (5) | Yes | No | No | - | - |
| Lua | . | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Ocaml (6) | . | No | No | . | . |
| Octave (7) | . | No | No | . | . |
| Perl (8) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Python | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Ada | - | No | Yes | - | - |
| Tcl | Yes | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Tk | . | (9) | . | - | - |
| Drivers | Bare Windows | Cygwin 64 | MinGW-w64/MSYS2 | Borland 5.5 | Open Watcom 1.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostScript (psc) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PostScript (psttf) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Wingcc (10) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | Yes |
| gd (png, jpeg, gif) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| wxWidgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| cgm | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| svg | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . | |
| cairo (11) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
| qt | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . |
Notes:
- A dot (.) simply means this aspect has not yet been tested.
- A dash (-) means that this option will not be supported for this compiler, as others covers this field.
- (1) The Borland and Open Watcom compilers have not been tested in several years. For the time being we keep them in this status report.
- (2) C++ Bindings are in the moment not available, because of invalid characters in the foldername.
- (3) There do not seem to be free D compilers for the Windows platform.
- (4) The Fortran compilers tested include gfortran, Intel Fortran and NAG Fortran. The main requirement is that the compiler supports the Fortran 2003 standard.
- (5) There is a Java compiler as part of the GCC compiler suite, but support for it under CMake seems to be limited.
- (6) For support of the Ocaml binding a component is missing - camlidl.
- (7) For support of the Octave binding Octave 3 is preferred. The Octave 4 binding is under test.
- (8) The support for PLplot under Perl is outside of the PLplot project.
- (9) The Tk binding is available if you have an X Server running at configure time.
- (10) The fact that the wingcc driver works under bare Windows, means that the win3 driver is redundant. We could phase it out in due time.
- (11) Cairo was obtained as part of GTK here: http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
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