I have added and updated a few sections on the wiki to include the major points from this thread. Hopefully they'll actually help someone out. Thanks for all your time Werner.
-kyle On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Werner Smekal <sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Hi Kyle, >> >> This worked for this stage and eventually I got my application to >> compile with PLplot. Hip-hip.. hoorah! Another piece of the puzzle >> was finding and using pkg-config for win32 to provide an appropriate >> set of linker flags. I didn't find this right off the bat, so here's >> a link for anyone else who ends up perusing this thread for help: >> >> http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html >> >> Just remember to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to the >> <install>\lib\pkgconfig directory so it can find the PLplot files. >> Now on to actual programming and figuring out how to use this. Oh, >> and repeating this process from scratch so I can document it well on >> the wiki. > > Yes, this pkg-config you found can be used (must be used for cairo devices), > but not needed. Usually to find out what parameters I need to compile my own > programs I configure PLplot with the -DBUILD_TEST=ON option and then compile > PLplot with > > make VERBOSE=1 > > Later on all the examples will be built and the VERBOSE flag tells make to > print out actual compiler and linker calls. This helps to get your own > programs running. > >> >> Yes, it finally did the trick. Thanks again for sticking it out and >> getting me to the bottom of this. >> >> -kyle > > Great! > > Werner > > -- > Dr. Werner Smekal > Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik > Technische Universitaet Wien > Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 > A-1040 Wien > Austria > > email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at > web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal > phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) > fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
