> 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.
Thank you for your answer Alan, but please consider these two points: 1. GNUstep is different than any other GUI library. It stores headers and libraries in non-standard directories. In addition, there are many libraries which need to be included, and this list is OS-dependent. But it does not include `pkg-config' or similar tools to help Make/CMake/autotools to spot the information necessary to build programs. The only standard tool to build GNUstep program is GNUstep-make. 2. Given that it is *very* hard to use CMake instead of GNUstep-make for GNUstep programs, this would require in any case somebody very expert in using CMake. This is not my case, as I am an absolute beginner: I have *never* used it... This was the reason why I asked for something that allowed me to play with the binary library. Plus, it seems to me that my first idea would have some value in other contexts as well. I would like to thank Werner very much, as his answer was really helpful. Unfortunately he provided me with some bad news: (1) plplot uses a static list of drivers created at compile time, and (2) dynamic drivers cannot be used under Windows. This rules out both my ideas. Too bad! Thank you both for your kind answers, Maurizio. **************************************** Maurizio Tomasi Via Giovannino De Grassi, 13 24126 Bergamo (Italy) Tel. +39-035-4921569 Skype: zio_tom78 http://www.geocities.com/zio_tom78/ **************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
