----- Original Message -----
From: "chm"
The thought was to replace a bunch of MinGW and MSYS hand
installation by installing cygwin and some modified build
scripts.
Should be do-able, but omg that's a lot of work to go through just to
(perhaps) save someone a few minutes. Of course, get it wrong, and it takes
them longer .... and only annoys them.
You have to make allowances for the fact that different versions of some
libraries either don't build correctly (NetCDF), or need different patches.
And some libraries use autotools for the build, whereas plplot uses cmake.
I don't know how one builds the pgplot library on Windows - that's something
I've never done.
If we start distributing binaries for these external libraries, there can be
legal considerations.
IMHO there are still things that should be given a much higher priority than
this - eg pthreads for Win32 (which now looks like it might be do-able), and
the removal of the freeglut binaries from the OpenGL source. (Easy for me
to say, of course :-)
Cheers,
Rob
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