On 2009-08-18 16:06-0400 Jack Dodds wrote: > > I would appreciate some help building plPlot using MinGW on a WinXP machine. > I want to use PLplot to output in a wxWidgets window. > > My directory structure looks like this (showing only most important > directories): > > MinGW > lib > (wxWidgets .dll.a and .dll libs are here.) > bin > (wxWidgets .dll libs are also here .) > PLplot > (plPlot source tree unzipped here from plplot-5.8.0-RC1.tar.gz) > BuildMinGW > (I'm trying to do the build in WinXP console here as > described in the wiki page "Configure PLplot for MinGW/CLI".) > > When I run cmake in BuildMinGW, it tells me that wxWidgets is not found. > (It also says that Pango is not found. I'm not sure that matters, but the > libpango dlls are in the bin directory.)
Hi Jack: Welcome to the PLplot world. :-) libpango is well worth having since that gives you access to all the cairo devices. Those along with the qt devices (that depend on QT4 which can also be downloaded for windows) are our best set of devices since they give convenient (no fiddling with fonts since the system fonts are just used by default) good-looking results for unicode fonts even for complex-text-layout (CTL) languages as evidenced by http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples.php?demo=24. But first I would concentrate on getting a fundamental build working with wxwidgets before worrying about cairo and qt devices. To help with that, in general, use the variables (either environment variables or as -D options to the cmake command) CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH (documented at http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables) to help cmake find everything it needs. If that general solution for finding headers and libraries on your platform doesn't work, get back to us here where some other PLplot developers (with windows expertise I don't have) may be able to help you. Finally, for your information we maintain a few find modules ourselves in cmake/modules, but the bulk of them (such as FindwxWidgets.cmake) are supplied by cmake. Good luck! 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); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
