On 2008-09-06 11:05+0200 Maurizio Tomasi (maurizio.tomasi) wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Maurizio Tomasi wrote: >> >>> Hi to everybody, >>> >>> A few days ago I posted a question in the plplot "Help" discussion >>> forum about a the development of a new driver for GNUstep >>> (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2185650&forum_id=8607). >>> In the last days I investigated a bit more the problem. >> >> I'm not sure if you saw this, but in case you did not there is a file in >> the drivers directory called "README.drivers" which explains the >> necessary steps to add a new driver to PLplot. It should be fairly >> straightforward... >> >> -Hazen >> >
> Yes, I have carefully read that document before posting my mail. But it explains how to add a driver to the plplot source tree, while my request was different: how to add a new driver to a *binary* plplot library that has been already compiled, installed and configured, without touching the library sources. A fully-loaded PLplot (including all the languages, drivers, and examples) builds in only a few minutes, and if you drop the languages, examples, and most drivers) that build time reduces to a few seconds. So you are saving very little by trying to build against a binary version of PLplot. Also, the PLplot build system is set up to handle all the build details so you can concentrate on programming your new device driver rather than worrying about those build details. Those details are non-trivial since the dynamic devices (the usual kind of devices) are set up in a very specific way and dynamically loaded using the libltdl library. For those reasons I don't recommend you attempt to build your device driver against a binary version of PLplot. 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 the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
