On 2008-01-30 08:20+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > > the only thing I want to finish before this release is, that > wxPLplotdemo.cpp is built with the c++ demos during plplot compilation > if BUILD_TEST=ON. Reason is, that the makefile which is generated and > copied during the make install stage only works if pkg-config is > available, which is not the case for Mac OS X and Windows, though it's > possible to install it. But at least for Windows that's not practical.
Actually, pkg-config works on both Mac OS X and windows (see further discussion below). > > I tried to modify the makefile so that it works also for windows, but > actually we would need to write a CMakeLists.txt, since you could have > different compiler, etc. In order to advertise plplot on the wxwidgets > mailing list I want to provide a short demo which everybody can try out > easily (which is the case if you manage to compile plplot with wxWidgets > support :) ). Therefore I want to have wxPLplotdemo compiled during the > BUILD_TEST=ON stage (only if wxWidgets was found). > > It should be fairly trivial to change the CMakeLists.txt in > examples\c++, but are there any objections to that? None, and please go ahead. My view is ctest on Unix is a developer build-tree convenience to quickly test changes without having to do an install, while the install tree tests are for both developers and users to show (a) that their system is installed properly and (b) how to compile applications with pkg-config that use any of the PLplot libraries. I hope we eventually move to this same philosophy for our windows users as well rather than relying on the build tree with our libraries and font/map data scattered all over in inconvenient locations. Our Mac OS X developers have reported good results for the install-tree tests so pkg-config must work right out of the box for them. I think we have also had good reports of install tree tests for Cygwin. Anyhow, a special Cygwin version of pkg-config is available from http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=pkg-config%2Fpkg-config-0.20-1&grep=pkg-config For windows (with MinGW or Microsoft compilers), pkg-config is available from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html and/or http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html. The Unix man page for pkg-config mentions windows options such as --msvc-syntax which apparently delivers -L and -l flags in a form which the microsoft compilers can understand. Also, I assume you would need some alternative (perhaps nmake?) to the "make" approach we currently use to build the installed examples on Unix and Cygwin. However, I think all the pieces are available on windows to build the install-tree examples, but we just need to convince a windows developer to put it all together so the install-tree concept is completely supported on windows. Werner, I hope the above information/encouragement convinces you to at least try and get the install tree working for windows with pkg-config after you are completely satisfied with ctest on windows. 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 2008. 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
