Re: [Swig-user] Using gifplot under Windows

[David B. <dav...@da...>]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:02 AM, John Edwards wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thank you very much for your quick reply.
>
>> I'm not aware of anything special about using gifplot on Windows---
>> it's basically just a standalone library that compiles without any
>> other dependencies.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance but there are two makefiles in
> C:\swig\Examples\GIFPlot> and C:\swig\Examples\GIFPlot\Lib>. I  
> tried the
> following in each folder : gmake -f makefile.in and got the following
> results :

You definitely don't want to use the 'Makefile.in' files---those are  
inputs to the configure script which should create proper makefiles  
called 'makefile' in that directory.   Since I don't maintain the  
Windows version of SWIG, I'm not exactly sure how this gets set up  
under cygwin, but I know for certain that you don't use the  
'makefile.in' files.

> I have both Microsoft and Borland compilers installed. I am sure  
> that I am
> missing something pretty basic but I am not sure what.

At one point, far, far in the past, I thought the GIFPlot example  
included makefiles set up for using nmake with Visual C++  
(checking....).   Yes, these seem to be part of the SWIG-1.1  
distribution.  If you can't get things to work normally, you might  
download an old SWIG version (1.1-883 perhaps), look in the GIFPlot  
directory and copy the makefile.msc files from GIFPlot/Lib, GIFPlot/ 
Python, etc.   You'll probably have to tweak them a bit, but it might  
be a starter.

Cheers,
Dave