On 2011-10-25 18:11+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > It's a little confusing since the plplot_install directory has the main > dll's in bin, and the drivers somewhere else. I think the problem is > somewhere in the compile, because if I open a clean MSDOS commant prompt > window, execute my batch script, and run the examples-compiled one it > runs fine, whereas the one I compiled separately doesn't.
Hi Steve: I am pretty sure from previous contacts between us that you would prefer to make your own independent system for building your PLplot-related applications, but I think I should at least remind others here that we already have two recommended methods for building PLplot-related applications. 1. This is called the traditional build system for the installed examples. It uses a combination of pkg-config to obtain the necessary compilation and link options and bash and make. On Windows, this combination only works if you have pkg-config (from the GTK+ stack) installed and the MSYS versions of make and bash. 2. This is called the CMake-based build system for the installed examples. You obviously need CMake for this, and whatever tools you used to build and install PLplot. So this is much more general approach than 1., and for that reason I recommend it. To see how it works; (i) install PLplot as usual; (ii) create an empty build directory and cd to it (note this is a different directory than the one you used to build and install PLplot); (iii) run "cmake" with appropriate generator option in that build directory using the pathname for the top-level installed examples directory, e.g., $PREFIX/share/plplot-5.9.9/examples where $PREFIX is the installation prefix you used when installing PLplot; (iv) put $PREFIX/bin on your PATH, and (v) run the build tool (nmake in your Windows case) that corresponds to the cmake generator that you chose to use to build the examples. The top-level CMakeLists.txt file that controls this build is installed in $PREFIX/share/plplot-5.9.9/examples, and it should be completely straightforward for any user to adapt that build system (mostly by stripping out unwanted stuff, e.g., examples in various languages that you don't care about) to build their own C, C++, Fortran, etc., apps against the PLplot libraries or configure interactive language (e.g., python, tcl) examples to use the PLplot libraries. Of course, to modify that build system for your needs requires some knowlege of cmake syntax or a willingness to learn that syntax. But that should not be a major barrier to using this method since CMake skill is already widespread amongst developers, and if you have no knowledge of that syntax to start with, it is an extremely easy syntax to pick up (especially if there is a complete example in front of you, as in this case.) 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
