On 2010-11-22 14:11+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi all, > > (just for your information) > there seems to be something about the GD-library (for PNG, JPEG etc > output) on Windows that we do not cover yet in our driver information - > on Windows the library is called "bgd.dll" and not "gd.dll" (as one > would expect from the Linux name "libgd.dll"). I will have a look at > this - in my own testing that library has fallen between the cracks.
Hi Arjen: The gd device driver is deprecated for the reasons mentioned in README.release and headed for oblivion unless someone wants to make large fundamental changes to the gd device driver to make it almost as good as the equivalent cairo and qt devices. Therefore, in the likely event that we decide to retire that device driver in the next year or so, your planned effort to make it work on more platforms would be wasted. What would be a much bigger help is your confirmation (and record of that good result at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot) that the cairo and qt devices work on all Windows platforms accessible to you. Of course, to do that you will need to install the GTK++ stack of libraries (which includes libpango/libcairo), the Qt stack of libraries, and bash. All of those are available for Windows according to our Wiki. If you run into any bugs in scripts/comprehensive_test.sh (the script that does a comprehensive check of all possible build-tree and install-tree tests of our three principal configurations) for your windows platforms, I would be happy to help you sort those out. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
