Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-16 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi, >> Well, warnings I have seen from Visual C/C++ 6.0 (the ancient one) are >> mostly >> about longs being implicitly converted to ints and the like. Adding >> explicit casts >> may silence the compiler, but the code is not going to work better and >> certainly >> is not going to be more readabl

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-16 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, > I started with some preliminary tests for the Salford C and Fortran compiler > (these are available in a free personal edition). These compilers have a > good > reputation in being rather strict and having good debugging facilities. I found the salford Fortran compiler, but not the c

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-10-10 09:33+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > Werner Smekal wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> The C compiler complained about a number of errors in our source >>> files that >>> other compilers did not notice or gave warnings about. I did not have >>> time >>> yet to look into them, but I think it is worth

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-10 Thread Arjen Markus
Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > >> The C compiler complained about a number of errors in our source >> files that >> other compilers did not notice or gave warnings about. I did not have >> time >> yet to look into them, but I think it is worth checking these. > > > Visual C++ 2005 gives also tons

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-10 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi, > The C compiler complained about a number of errors in our source files that > other compilers did not notice or gave warnings about. I did not have time > yet to look into them, but I think it is worth checking these. Visual C++ 2005 gives also tons of warnings, especially about the use of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-10 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >Good work. I will also be most interested to see how well it does for our >two fortran (f77 and f95) interfaces. > > > I started with some preliminary tests for the Salford C and Fortran compiler (these are available in a free personal edition). These compilers have a g

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2006-10-09 12:09+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to make plplot compile with the Open Watcom compiler > (http://www.openwatcom.org) and was also able to run x01c with the > wingcc driver. This takes me back a long way. I did a lot of my programme development as a graduate studen

[Plplot-devel] Another (windows) compiler support

2006-10-09 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi, I managed to make plplot compile with the Open Watcom compiler (http://www.openwatcom.org) and was also able to run x01c with the wingcc driver. There were some problems though: 1) wmake, the watcom make, doesn't like '+' in filenames - therefore it doesn't compile the c++ bindings. The most