On 2015-04-16 22:48-0000 Ben Woods wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trying to build plplot 5.11.0 on FreeBSD with wxwidgets support. I > have wx28-gtk2-2.8.12 and agg-2.5_11 installed, and am compiling with > the following options: > -DPLD_wxpng:BOOL=ON > -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH="/usr/local/bin/wxgtk2-2.8-config"
> -- WARNING: You have enabled the PLD_wxpng device which is disabled by > default either because it is deprecated or because there are know > issues with it. Please check the documentation / release notes for > details. Hi Ben: I have reviewed our old mailing list archive and PLD_wxpng has been disabled by default since its implementation many years ago because it had all sorts of run-time problems (segfaults, etc.), and nobody has fixed it since. Just out of curiosity I tried to use -DPLD_wxpng:BOOL=ON as you did above, and I got the following build error (which apparently is not the same as your build error): /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot.git/drivers/wxwidgets.cpp: In function ‘void plD_init_wxpng(PLStream*)’: /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot.git/drivers/wxwidgets.cpp:231:5: error: ‘wxPLDevBase’ was not declared in this scope /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot.git/drivers/wxwidgets.cpp:231:18: error: ‘dev’ was not declared in this scope /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot.git/drivers/wxwidgets.cpp:232:28: error: ‘common_init’ was not declared in this scope make[3]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/wxwidgets.dir/wxwidgets.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/wxwidgets.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/CMakeFiles/wxwidgets.dir/rule] Error 2 make: *** [wxwidgets] Error 2 So it appears wxpng has fallen into even a greater state of disrepair (it now doesn't even build) for the new wxwidgets implementation used for 5.11.0. It might build (but would probably still have the same run-time errors as previously) if you used the -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON option we have implemented for 5.11.0 to give access to the old wxwidgets implementation. But I think what you really should do is pay attention to the above warning message and do not use the -DPLD_wxpng:BOOL=ON option for 5.11.0 at all. @Phil: I think Werner's historical idea with wxpng was as a proof-of-concept that wxwidgets could be the basis of a whole bunch of additional file device drivers. He obviously never got that idea to work properly, but it might be a lot easier now with modern wxwidgets and your simplification/rationalization of our own wxwidgets-related code. Anyhow, my advice is to consider this possibility. If you think wxpng (and other possible file devices) are a good idea and straightforward to implement properly with you new wxwidgets approach, then please put getting wxpng to build and actually execute properly without segfaults on your wxwidgets ToDo list. Otherwise, though, you should remove the wxpng code from your new wxwidgets source files so nobody runs into the type of build errors I did above for new wxwidgets. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
