>From a recent thread on the CMake ML about pkg-config on windows systems without MSYS, it appears (a) that the pkg-config binary executable from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html runs for non-MSYS windows platforms, but (b) there may be some issues with how *.pc files are configured (unix paths rather than windows paths) for the non-MSYS case for certain packages.
PLplot may also have these same configuration issues with how our *.pc files are configured on the non-MSYS windows platform, and we need a volunteer to check that case and sort out any issues that are found. I suspect from what was said on the CMake ML that volunteer will have to modify the current cmake configuration of our *.pc files for the non-MSYS windows platform. Alternatively there might be a pkg-config option they missed that can seamlessly return the right style of path name depending on platform. Anyhow, the goal should be that when the non-MSYS windows user executes pkg-config for a PLplot library, compile and link information is returned for that library in a form which is immediately usable (windows-style path names) for the non-MSYS windows case. This brings up a related issue. In general it would be good for somebody to get the various pango devices working on windows (both with and without MSYS) with the binary libraries available from the above URL. We configure our cairo-related devices with pkg_check_pkgconfig (see cmake/modules/cairo.cmake), and for non-MSYS systems there may be some additional transformation of the pkg_check_pkgconfig results that has to be done to render them into the form required by CMake. BTW, there is a new distribution of Linux apps that have been ported to windows, see http://www.theopendisc.com/. If you follow the programs link on the upper right-hand corner of that page, you will find they use the above URL for the libgtk+ stack of library dependencies. There is a lot more on that programs link beyond libgtk+ so this windows distribution might be a useful download for our windows developers in general. One downside of OpenDisc appears to be they do not yet distribute PLplot for windows. :-( Could one of our windows developers please contact them about this omission? 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
