Hi Alan, I'll have a look into this topic. Ideally we should provide two packages, one with Visual Studio C++ 6.0 libraries and one with MinGW libraries. Python and so on, can use both or at least one of these packages. I'm not aware of projects which would depend on Borland libraries and so on. Borland/Watcom users should compile plplot on their on.
We would need VC++ 6.0 binaries, since all later VC++ can use them, but obviously if I make the binary with VC++ 2005 not many can use it than :). Since I have no access to VC++ 6.0, it would be perfect, if Arjen could provide this package. I intend to provide the mingw package than. If we sorted out how cpack can do this automatically this should be not much a problem. Problematic in any case will be how we add the additional libraries? Freetype, qhull, cd, agg are static (at least for vc++ 6.0) so no problem here, but wxWidgets can be made static and gd must be provided as dll. So this needs some research. Regards, Werner Alan W. Irwin wrote: > To Werner and Arjen: > > I hope this is a good time for one of you to start moving ahead on the small > project of creating a binary release of PLplot for windows using cpack. I > believe when we discussed this before, we were all in agreement this would > be a good thing to do since, for example, major SF projects that have a > windows port almost always include a windows binary version. I bring it up > again now because (a) you are mostly done with the higher priority work of > making sure all the PLplot features work properly on windows, and (b) there > has just now been a request for such a binary release of PLplot for windows > on the PDL list. In response to this request, it would be nice to bring out > a binary release of PLplot for windows a few days after the scheduled source > release in January (and after every source release thereafter), and from my > experiments today I think only a small amount of additional debugging work > should be required to make that happen. > > Assuming you want to go ahead with a binary release of PLplot for windows on > that sort of time scale, then you should note we already use cpack to > provide our source release of PLplot --- see the cpack-related items at the > end of the top-level CMakeLists.txt file. These create a target called > "package_source" which invokes cpack to pack everything in the source > directory into a tarball. That target works well on Linux (in fact, we use > it to create our source release tarball in scripts/make_tarball.sh), and you > should also confirm it works well on windows. > > Similarly, a target called "package" is automatically created by our use of > "include(CPack)" in our top-level CMakeLists.txt file. That target is > supposed to invoke cpack to pack everything in the install tree into a > tarball. Just now I tried > > make package > > but that yields an empty result for PLplot (with no error message). For > CMake itself, that command indeed produces a tarball of the cmake install > tree so that target should work similarly for us. I don't know what the > PLplot problem with the "package" target is, but I assume intercomparison of > our top-level CMakeLists.txt file with that of the cmake project and some > experimentation should be able to sort out this PLplot issue. There is also > some rudimentary documentation of cpack in > (http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Packaging_With_CPack) which might be of > some help to you. > > If one of you would like to take on this small debugging project, that would > be great since a binary release of PLplot for windows users would apparently > be of some help to those users (especially Perl and Python users who > ordinarily don't require a compiler). > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > -- Dipl. Ing. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
