On 2014-01-17 11:04-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > ... >> So Arjen, it is mostly over to you now; you should be able to follow up on >> my work on >> PLplot and epa_build for Tcl and friends in any way you like for the Cygwin, >> MinGW/MSYS, and Linux platforms that are accessible to you. >> > > Just a quick update wrt Itcl/Itk on Cygwin: > I installed these packages together with Iwidgets under Cygwin, but it turns > out that > for Itk the current version is 3.3 whereas Iwidgets (4.0.1) requires 3.4 of > both. > > I have hacked the Iwidgets code so that it accepts Itk 3.3 instead of 3.4 and > have posted > a question on the Cygwin mailing list about it. The hack should be enough to > properly > use Itcl/Itk/Iwidgets on Cygwin, but I will look at these package for bare > Windows as well.
I assume you meant the Iwidgets-4.0.1 _Cygwin package_ required Itk-3.4 in error, and you hacked the Cygwin packaging code for Iwidgets-4.0.1 to change that dependency to Itk-3.3, the only version of Itk currently packaged for Cygwin according to http://cygwin.com/packages/x86/tcl-itk/. Certainly the combination of Iwidgets-4.0.1, Itk-3.3, and Itcl-3.4 (one of the combinations provided by epa_build) work well with PLplot on Linux and MinGW/MSYS with no changes required of the Iwidgets-4.0.1 and Itk-3.3 code bases. (Itk3.3 does require the autotools_backport.patch to take care of MinGW/MSYS issues with the Itk3.3 autotools build system.) Some time ago I saw another reference to Itk-3.4 on the web. At that time I searched very hard for it on the web because I wanted to update epa_build to use it. However, I was never able to actually find that release on the Web. I suspect it was publicly distributed for a while and then removed by administrative error. Anyhow, I look forward to hearing about what the Cygwin guys say about the elusive Itk-3.4. Perhaps they removed their Itk-3.4 package when Itk-3.4 was no longer publicly distributed, but failed to update the Iwidgets-4.0.1 package to be consistent with that change? 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
