On 2013-03-04 14:05-0000 Richard Jackson wrote: > Alan, Arjen, > > This reminded me that I had a similar problem with strange things happening > under Windows after the return call from test-drv-info.c. There is a long > thread on the subject in May 2011 entitled Installing Plplot with Qt under > Windows. In the end I think it came down to having absolutely everything - > including DLLS - built with the same version of the same toolset with the > same options.
Hi Richard: Thanks for the reminder of the older discussion of similar issues for the qt device driver. I just took a quick peek at that very long thread, and it appears you got excellent test results by using the workaround TEST_DYNDRIVERS=OFF. In other words, you were getting a non-zero return code from test-drv-info that was an apparently false warning that something was wrong with the qt device driver linking (since all your extensive tests that did not involve test-drv-inf worked fine). And I am currently getting similar false warnings from wxwidgets for test-drv-info. So we apparently have a situation where our normal dynamic loading of the device works properly from the plplotd library, but not when we do a test of that loading using test-drv-info. So there must be some difference between the dynamic loading done in test-drv-info and the plplotd library, but I cannot spot what it is. Anyhow, I am now exploring the possibility of trying more complete error reporting in src/ltdl_win32.c. Perhaps that will reveal more exact details when anything goes wrong in the linking of wxwidgets (and qt) and help to reveal what the test-drv-info issue is on Windows. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
