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Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:21:24 -0000

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 -   \(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: download-windows.html="" www.gtk.org="">

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Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:39:31 -0000

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 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. 
+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

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 AGG support | Yes | . | Yes | . | .
 Shapelib support | . | Yes | Yes | . | .

-Languages| Bare Windows | Cygwin 64 | MinGW-w64/MSYS2 | Borland 5.5 |Open Watcom 1.5 
+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 | - | - 
+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) | . | - | - 
+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 
+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 | . | . 
-pdf | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . 
-cairo (11) | 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 | . | .
+pdf | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | .
+cairo (11) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | .
 qt | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | .

 Notes:
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 -   \(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. 
+-   \(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.
@@ -73,4 +73,3 @@

 The content of this page is available under the [GNU Free Documentation License 1.2](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html).
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Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 08:30:58 -0000

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 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.

Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Arjen Markus

Arjen Markus — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:38:09 -0000

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 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 
 ---|---|---|---|---|---
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
 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 | . | . 
+PostScript (psttf) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . 
 Wingcc (10) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | Yes 
 gd (png, jpeg, gif) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No 
 wxWidgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | .

Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Arjen Markus

Arjen Markus — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:35:47 -0000

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 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 6.0, 2003 or 2005, but currently with an emphasis on version 6.0). For Cygwin and MinGW this is the suite of GCC compilers.
+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 27 April 2010, Arjen Markus, Werner Smekal and Hazen Babcock
+Status per 2 October 2017, Arjen Markus, Werner Smekal and Hazen Babcock

-Library options | Bare Windows | Cygwin | MinGW | Borland 5.5 |Open Watcom 1.5 
+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 | . | .
+QHull support | Yes |  Yes | Yes | . | .
 AGG support | Yes | . | Yes | . | .

-Languages| Bare Windows | Cygwin | MinGW | Borland 5.5 |Open Watcom 1.5 
+Languages| Bare Windows | Cygwin 64 | MinGW-w64/MSYS2 | Borland 5.5 |Open Watcom 1.5 
 ---|---|---|---|---|---
 C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
-C++ | Yes | Yes(1) | Yes | No | No(2)
-Fortran 95 | Yes(3) | Yes | Yes(4) | . | .
-Java | Yes | . | No | - | - 
-Perl | . | . | . | - | - 
-Python | Yes | . | Yes | - | - 
-Ada | - | . | Yes | - | - 
-Tcl | Yes(5) | Yes | Yes | - | - 
-Tk | . | (6) | . | - | - 
+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 | MinGW | Borland 5.5 |Open Watcom 1.5 
+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 | . | . 
-Wingcc (7) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | Yes 
+Wingcc (10) | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | Yes 
 gd (png, jpeg, gif) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No 
-wxWidgets | Yes | . | Yes | . | . 
+wxWidgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . 
 cgm | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 
-svg | Yes | . | Yes | . | . 
-pdf | Yes | . | Yes | . | . 
-cairo (8) | . | . | Yes | . | . 
-qt | . | . | Yes | . | .
+svg | Yes | Yes | Yes | . | . 
+pdf | 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) GNU C++ caused a problem on one machine, but others were successful. Something wrong with the toolchain?
+-   \(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) Compaq Visual Fortran works now with the extra CMake module, when using shared libraries (DLL). Main issue: the location of all DLLs that are used.
--   \(4) The Fortran compilers used is normally gfortran. For MingW it was tested with g95.
--   \(5) The build succeeds currently, but pltcl.exe, the shell that is built, is missing DLLs. You need to copy these into the proper directory manually. (And you need to tell it where to find the Tcl initialisation files).
--   \(6) The Tk bindings may use more of the X Window library than has been ported to the Cygwin/MinGW platform. There is also the issue of several UNIX specific Tcl routines that have no equivalent on Windows.
--   \(7) 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.
--   \(8) Cairo was obtained as part of GTK here: <http: www.gtk.org="" download-windows.html="">
+-   \(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="">

 The content of this page is available under the [GNU Free Documentation License 1.2](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html).

Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:33:36 -0000

Overview_of_the_status_on_Windows modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:23:12 -0000

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 6.0, 2003 or 2005, but currently with an emphasis on version 6.0). For Cygwin and MinGW this is the suite of GCC compilers.

Status per 27 April 2010, Arjen Markus, Werner Smekal and Hazen Babcock

Library options	Bare Windows	Cygwin	MinGW	Borland 5.5	Open Watcom 1.5
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	.	.
AGG support	Yes	.	Yes	.	.

Languages	Bare Windows	Cygwin	MinGW	Borland 5.5	Open Watcom 1.5
C	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
C++	Yes	Yes(1)	Yes	No	No(2)
Fortran 95	Yes(3)	Yes	Yes(4)	.	.
Java	Yes	.	No	-	-
Perl	.	.	.	-	-
Python	Yes	.	Yes	-	-
Ada	-	.	Yes	-	-
Tcl	Yes(5)	Yes	Yes	-	-
Tk	.	(6)	.	-	-

Drivers	Bare Windows	Cygwin	MinGW	Borland 5.5	Open Watcom 1.5
PostScript (psc)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PostScript (psttf)	.	.	Yes	.	.
Wingcc (7)	Yes	Yes	Yes	.	Yes
gd (png, jpeg, gif)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
wxWidgets	Yes	.	Yes	.	.
cgm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
svg	Yes	.	Yes	.	.
pdf	Yes	.	Yes	.	.
cairo (8)	.	.	Yes	.	.
qt	.	.	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) GNU C++ caused a problem on one machine, but others were successful. Something wrong with the toolchain?
(2) C++ Bindings are in the moment not available, because of invalid characters in the foldername.
(3) Compaq Visual Fortran works now with the extra CMake module, when using shared libraries (DLL). Main issue: the location of all DLLs that are used.
(4) The Fortran compilers used is normally gfortran. For MingW it was tested with g95.
(5) The build succeeds currently, but pltcl.exe, the shell that is built, is missing DLLs. You need to copy these into the proper directory manually. (And you need to tell it where to find the Tcl initialisation files).
(6) The Tk bindings may use more of the X Window library than has been ported to the Cygwin/MinGW platform. There is also the issue of several UNIX specific Tcl routines that have no equivalent on Windows.
(7) 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.
(8) Cairo was obtained as part of GTK here: http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

The content of this page is available under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.