Sorry A., I am using MSYS2 (or Cygwin). And I am not using the Visual Studio generator (at least I didn't intend to do so). I tried various -G options: "Unix Makefiles", etc. and got various error messages, so thought I would just try once without it (i.e., the command as shown on the web site). The error messages listed a bunch of generators and "Unix Makefiles" seemed to be the only one in the list that made sense to me.
I agree it must be my system that has a problem and I certainly did not think there was a problem with plplot on Windows, in general. I just don't know how to build it. If anyone can sen me a cmake command that works for either MSYS2 or Cygwin, I would like to try it. When I successfully built plplot in the past, I built a static lib and that is fine for my use now. Thanks for the responses. On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:15 AM Phil Rosenberg <p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Walt > I have had success with the visual studio generator and use it routinely. > I updated the wiki instructions recently. Check them out and see if they > help > https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Configure_PLplot_for_the_Visual_Studio_IDE/ > > My first guess might be that by not using the -G option to select a > generator, maybe you are getting a 32 bit generator on a 64 bit system? My > second guess might be that you are running from a standard command prompt. > You must use the visual studio command prompt as it has extra environment > variables set. > > Hope this helps. > > Phil > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Arjen Markus <arjen.mar...@deltares.nl> > *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2019 1:48:46 PM > *To:* Alan W. Irwin; Walt Brainerd > *Cc:* plplot_general > *Subject:* Re: [Plplot-general] Building plplot on Windows 10 > > Hi Walt, Alan, > > The message appears to come from Visual Studio, so Walt uses the "Visual > Studio" generator. My personal experience with that generator (or I should > say generators, as there are at least seven, one of each supported version > of Visual Studio and then you have the choice of architecture (ARM or Win64 > or IA64, choose two, depending on the VS version, and there may be more as > my installation is geared to 64-bits, IIRC). My preference is the "NMake > Makefiles" generator, as that allows me to run the whole build procedure > via a small batchfile. > > My suggestion at the moment is that Walt use this particular generator, > though I am interested to know which generator he used. > > Regards, > > Arjen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> > Sent: 15 April 2019 00:30 > To: Walt Brainerd <walt.brain...@gmail.com> > Cc: plplot_general <plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] Building plplot on Windows 10 > > On 2019-04-14 15:54-0600 Walt Brainerd wrote: > > > I am trying again without success to build plplot on Windows. > > > > cmake.exe -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ../plplot.git >& cmake.out > > > > produces > > > > Build FAILED. > > > > > > > "C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj" > > (default target) (1) -> > > > > > C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj(14,2): > > error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" > > was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is > > correct, and that the file exists on disk. > > > > That file (of course?) does not exist in the C directory. > > Help please for someone who does not know much about C++ or cmake. > > I just want to build it to use it with Fortran. I can use Cygwin or MSYS. > > Thanks. > > I can't help you with platform specifics since I don't have good access to > any Windows platform other than Wine, and current Wine bugs stop me from > trying out either MinGW-w64/MSYS2 or Cygwin on that platform. > > However, I do want to make the comment that in general, PLplot users have > good luck with it on Windows. This claim is based on the fact that roughly > half our users use various Windows platforms yet from the lack of > complaints (other than yours) they appear to be having success with > PLplot. Furthermore, Arjen's extensive tests of the Cygwin, > MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and MSVC platforms give good results in general. So my > guess is whatever the issue is for you, it is likely a small unique one > related to how your platform is configured to build software rather than > any general problem with PLplot on Windows. > > Note, we do not support MSYS since the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 project has long > superseded that. But to help find the source of what appear to be unique > problems in your case please do give extensive details (e.g., much more > than above such as a full CMake cache file, full cmake output, full build > output) for your Cygwin platform. And also please try to install > MinGW-w64/MSYS2 following the well-documented steps at < > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmsys2%2Fmsys2%2Fwiki&data=02%7C01%7C%7C89174c21237c4f10f84108d6c128c7f6%7C15f3fe0ed7124981bc7cfe949af215bb%7C0%7C0%7C636908778237522820&sdata=ukmRkI5y6z6j2pYBe9hw7Ga3FzWl6Pq%2Bv5fhLKcOK4Y%3D&reserved=0> > and give us detailed PLplot configuration and build results for that case > as well. > > I assume once you give those details on one or both of those well-tested > platforms, other PLplot users here with access to those platforms should be > able to weigh in on what might be specifically wrong in your case. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. 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