The new three named semaphores approach to wxwidgets IPC that I implemented should "just work" on all platforms. The reason why I claim that is the method works on Linux and POSIX named semaphores are widely supported on all POSIX platforms (so should work on all free Unix platforms and Mac OS X and other proprietary Unix platforms). Also, I just checked and Cygwin apparently has complete support for POSIX named semaphores. So the new IPC method should just work in that case as well. Furthermore, I copied how Phil handled (in his earlier implementation of a different IPC method) the Window mutex equivalent of named POSIX semaphores for the case when WIN32 is #defined. Therefore, the new IPC method should just work in that case (the MSVC and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 Windows platforms) as well.
However, currently the only test result I have for the new IPC method is for the Linux platform so testing is requested for all the other platforms I mentioned above. I have now (commit 25d120e) disabled all versions of IPC other than the new three named semaphores approach to insure all further testing will be with that new IPC method and as the first step in the planned removal of all other IPC methods we have tried in the past. The commit message indicates the comprehensive test script options that should be used to do the requested testing. Those options insured that the comprehensive test of our wxwidgets device and bindings only took 15 minutes to complete on Linux. I am especially interested in equivalent comprehensive test wxwidgets results for Cygwin, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and Mac OS X since previous attempts to use that bash test script have worked well on all those platforms. Theoretically, that comprehensive bash script should also work on MSVC (if you set environment variables to access Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2 unix functionality such as bash.exe). But so far, nobody has figured out exactly how to do that so you may be limited to just hand testing of -dev wxwidgets on MSVC. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
