Hi,

as far as I remember one should use gcc 4.2.1 since the (official) alpha 
release 4.3.0 is quite unstable. I installed them, but never used them 
to compile plplot, just played around a little bit.

Regards,
Werner

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-09-08 20:10+0200 Arjen Markus wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> it turns out that my TDM/MinGW gfortran installation is
>> incapable of linking even the simplest Fortran 90 programs:
> 
> Hi Arjen:
> 
> If Werner cannot find a way to help you get the
> unofficial TDM version to work on your platform, then there is an
> official alternative that you might want to try instead from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 and especially
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=241304
> 
> The latest 4.3.0 release there is labelled as alpha, but it might be good
> enough to deal with PLplot since we use relatively few of the fortran 95
> capabilities in our bindings and examples.  But if the latest 4.3.0 release
> doesn't work, you might want to try the technology preview gcc-4.2.1 release
> instead.
> 
> I recall giving this advice before, but I cannot recall if anybody tried
> either/both of these official versions or what the outcome was.
> 
> Alan
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