Hi Arjen: I need PLplot to be installed on Wine so I can test another project (te_gen) that requires a lot of PostScript plotting on that platform. So today I tried building and testing PLplot svn trunk version on MinGW/MSYS/Wine (for Wine-1.5.15 and for MinGW/MSYS you can obtain using the 20110802 installer without updates which corresponds to gcc 4.5.2).
My Wine platform did have access to version 4.5.2 of gcc, g++, and gfortran via MinGW and a bootstrapped build of CMake2.8.9 (done with MinGW/MSYS) and downloaded binary versions of swig and Python (a slightly dated version 2.7.1 which I downloaded last year from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1), but virtually nothing else. A default build (no -DENABLE_* or -DPLD_* options) went into an infinite loop in the FindLua.cmake module. Is that infinite loop a Wine peculiarity or can you confirm that same issue there on Windows using your usual CMake command, but with -DENABLE_lua=ON? I am presuming here that you actually don't have Lua installed which is also the case for my current Wine platform. That case presumably exercises CMake logic that ends up as an infinite loop here. To avoid the infinite loop I specified -DENABLE_lua=OFF, and the cmake command (done with -DBUILD_TEST=ON) finished with no issues (although with most components/devices disabled). Here is the summary: ENABLE_DYNDRIVERS: ON DRIVERS_LIST: mem;null;ps;svg;wingcc;xfig DEVICES_LIST: mem;null;ps;svg;wingcc;xfig Library options: BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: ON PL_DOUBLE: ON Optional libraries: PL_HAVE_QHULL: OFF WITH_CSA: ON HAVE_FREETYPE: PL_HAVE_PTHREAD: HAVE_AGG: HAVE_SHAPELIB: OFF Language Bindings: ENABLE_f77: OFF ENABLE_f95: ON ENABLE_cxx: ON ENABLE_java: OFF ENABLE_python: ON ENABLE_octave: OFF ENABLE_tcl: OFF ENABLE_itcl: OFF ENABLE_tk: OFF ENABLE_itk: OFF ENABLE_pdl: OFF ENABLE_wxwidgets: OFF ENABLE_ada: OFF ENABLE_d: OFF ENABLE_ocaml: OFF ENABLE_lua: OFF ENABLE_qt: OFF ENABLE_pyqt4: OFF I then went on to do a test with the test_noninteractive target and the Fortran 95 examples bombed out with the following error message: [ 83%] [ 83%] Fatal Error: Reading module plplotp at line 1097 column 3: Expected string gfortran.exe: Internal error: Aborted (program f951) I believe this is a MinGW on Wine peculiarity (I have run into this Fortran module parsing issue before for MinGW on Wine), but could you please run the test_noninteractive target there for the -G "MSYS Makefiles" case to confirm the problem does not exist on your Microsoft platform? And when you report those results will you please include the gfortran version string? Here under MSYS bash.exe on the Wine platform that version string is bash.exe-3.1$ gfortran --version GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.2 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .... A subsequent fresh build and test (with the test_noninteractive target) using the CMake options -DDEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS=ON -DENABLE_cxx=ON -DENABLE_python=ON -DENABLE_f77=ON worked without obvious run-time issues for me on Wine. However, the diff results from that test were c++ Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : f77 Missing examples : 00 Differing postscript output : 14a 21 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : python Missing examples : Differing postscript output : 00 03 04 05 06 08 09 11 12 14a 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 29 33 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : 23 I don't remember whether I have ever tested Python on Wine before. Does that bad result jibe with your experience? More later on those Python on Windows (or Wine?) issues once I look more thorougly at them. The few f77 issues are likely because you haven't been maintaining those bindings/examples. I think you should continue to ignore maintaining f77 since it is deprecated. However, Wine is a platform (because of the above problem with parsing Fortran 95 module files) where only the Fortran 77 version of our Fortran bindings and examples works so you may want to extend the f77 deprecation period indefinitely (or until MinGW on Wine finally can deal with Fortran 95 module files appropriately). In sum to help figure out which of the above results are due to Wine idiosyncracies, please let me know the -DENABLE_lua=ON results there (assuming you actually don't have Lua installed so you will be exercising the same CMake logic there as here); the "MSYS Makefiles" results there for our f95 interface and examples, the version of MinGW on your platform, and the Python results there. Finally, please continue with the f77 deprecation including ignoring maintenance, but put off its complete removal. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). 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