Hi Alan, Jim, Arjen I will try and sort that submitted patch asap.
I will also experiment with MSYS2 - I now have a windows laptop at work and need a linux-like system on there. I did intend to use the Ubuntu Bash on Windows System, but my IT dept seem to have blocked this - at least for now. So I may try MSYS2 ather than Cygwin. I would also like to get the wxWidgets driver sorted as you described. This is time limited unfortunately. Just a note about MSVC, what are the ABI concerns you have? It is of note that GCC for windows does not provide ABI forward compatibility https://stackoverflow.com/a/23521099. My understanding is that MSVC's C ABI is consistent across versions and I just did a quick google and found that for C++ MSVC2015, 2017 and 2019 are all ABI compatible. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp-binary-compatibility-and-pain-free-upgrades-to-visual-studio-2019/ Interestingly it looks like Microsoft is also developing some sort of open source library packaging system, called Vcpkg, to reduce the existing pain of having to build all open source libraries from scratch https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/vcpkg-a-tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows/. Might be worth looking into. Had a quick scan down the list of available libraries and Cairo, Pango, Curl, wxWidgets are there. HA HA - JUST CHECKED AND SO IS PLPLOT!!! At version 5.13. Phil On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 00:10, Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2019-06-12 12:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > >> On 2019-06-11 17:29-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> I think the earliest version of windows we should > >> support is win7. Keeping XP support will be a challenge. > > > > According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>, XP was introduced > > in > > 2001, Microsoft > > quit fundamental support for it in 2014, and the percentage of Windows users > > who > > are still using it has dropped to ~2 per cent as of a few months ago. So > > yes, I am fine > > with us dropping XP support as well. > > I have just discovered my answer above did not go far enough because I > forgot XP was followed by Vista which was followed by Windows 7. From > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista> Vista share of the > Windows market is down to 0.5% while from > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7> the Windows 7 share is still > at 33% with both numbers sampled just a few months ago. So I agree we > should drop support for both XP AND Vista now so that the earliest > version we should support is Windows 7. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > 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.org); 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 > __________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
