On 2006-12-20 09:23+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > 2) Run a batch file, which runs: > a) make package > b) untar the package somewhere temporarily (since tar is no good for > windows) > c) copy possible dlls into the directory where plplotd.dll resides > d) zip it > > You need only tar and zip from somewhere (e.g. gnuwin32.sf.net), since > windows doesn't provide it by default
One small change I would recommend is to use unzip in step b) to reduce the tool dependencies. I think this is consistent with what cpack does on windows. See http://cmake.org/HTML/Download.html for an example of zip results produced by cpack on windows). Regardless of this minor issue, it appears we have arrived at a viable method to make binary releases for our windows users, and I think we are going to see our PLplot efforts have a lot more impact in the windows world as a result. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
