I've come a bit further with my Octave/Windows/PLplot problem.
For test purposes I replaced the fork in "matwrap" with a simple open.
(As far as I understand the fork is supposed to prevent problems with
quotes, which I don't have in my calls.) This worked fine, but I'm
running into new difficulties:
The "matwrap" script now dies like this:
unrecognized type 'FI'
plplot_octave.h:0: fatal error: when writing output to : Invalid argument
compilation terminated.
Through extensive debug output I traced this problem to the "parse_str"
function, which seems unable to interpret MinGW's stdio.h / stdlib.h and
possibly others as well.
The garbled call comes in the section "# Look for variable definitions:"
around line ~480, where a regexp replacement seems to fail. The
following call to "canonicalize_type" consequently fails.
When in stdio.h, the regular expression tries to match to, for example $_=
typedef struct _iobuf
0 FILE;
extern ;
FILE* ;
FILE* ;
int ;
int ;
int ;
int ;
FILE* ;
char* ;
...
and comes up with $1=[](\06, i guess), $2=FI and $3=LE.
The catch is probably the typedef ...{...} FILE; , since there is no
variable name following.
Ideas, anyone? It is annoying that the build fails on a
collector/preparation script. ;-)
Daniel
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:03:39PM +0200, Daniel Sachse wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've sent this question as a Support Request on SFnet and was referred
>> to this mailing list (not without some good initial help, thanks smekal).
>>
>> The case is this:
>>
>> I'm trying to get PLplot to work together with Octave on a (urks)
>> Windows machine. PLplot compiles (and runs) fine for GCC but as soon as
>> I enable the Octave binding, I get this:
>>
>> > mingw32-make
>> [..]
>> [ 43%] Generating plplot_octave.cc, tmp_stub
>> '-' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>> matwrap: C preprocessor exited with error status
>> mingw32-make[2]: *** [bindings/octave/plplot_octave.cc] Error 2
>> mingw32-make[1]: *** [bindings/octave/CMakeFiles/plplot_octave.dir/all]
>> Error 2
>> mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> The "is not recognized" expression is a Windows command line error
>> message when it tries to open/run something that does not exist.
>>
>> I have traced the error to the perl script matwrap, line ~211
>> (plus/minus) where it seems that the program wants to try and fork -
>> which, in Windows, leads to problems. What can I do?
>>
>> Greetings from Oslo,
>> Daniel
>> Huge fan of Open Source, but unfortunately bound to Windows.
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