Sina Türeli wrote: > May I ask as to when you are planning to release this new version of > PDL? And do you know of any other ways to install PDL TriD on a > windows machine without the new version? Someone said try cygwin but I > have no knowledge of how to use that so I could as well rather learn > Perl OpenGL instead of learning that... What I want to do is rather > simple, just plot some ellipsoids and cylinders with given > coordinates, lengths and unit radii etc.. >
There is not a hard date for PDL-2.4.4. My guess is that the bug fixes and candidate release testing will take the rest of July so the official release would probably end up in August. Right now, to use PDL-2.4.3 with TriD you'll need to install cygwin and then build PDL-2.4.3 for that. The steps are: 1. Go to http://www.cygwin.com and download their Setup.exe program from the upper right corner of the home page. That will let you download and install the current version of cygwin. I usually run the Setup.exe twice: the first time choosing Download Without Installing, the second time choosing Install from Local Directory. When you download, you should click between the All and Default at the top of the Select Packages view to change to Install. That will get everything. Before you click Next from here, go under the Perl heading and click on the version number for Perl and change to 5.8.8-4 and not the 5.10.0 version. After the download is complete, just re-run Setup.exe to install cygwin. 2. Download PDL-2.4.3.tar.gz from CPAN (if you go to http://search.cpan.org and enter PDL in the search box you should see PDL (a.k.a. PDL-2.4.3) which you can go to. On the right side of the page you'll see a link to download PDL-2.4.3.tar.gz. 3. Untar the PDL-2.4.3.tar.gz file to create a PDL-2.4.3 folder. In this folder is a cygwin/ subfolder with directions for building with cygwin. Start with the README file. Then, go to INSTALL. NOTE: As part of the build process you'll need to install the following modules before PDL: * Astro::FITS::Header * ExtUtils::F77 * Parse::RecDescent * Inline Good luck. Feedback on the instructions and questions welcome. The best is to post to [email protected] if you have already joined the mailing list. --Chris _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
