Hazen Babcock wrote:
> I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along 
> with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can 
> put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc... so 
> I'm volunteering myself to generate whatever binaries needs to be 
> generated to make this happen. This has come up several times in the 
> past and then died off so I'm not really sure where things stand. So, to 
> start, what needs to be done to provide a minimalist version of PLplot 
> with the basic windows drivers (wingcc?) with working C examples? Do we 
> need to provide both MinGW and Visual Studio versions of the dlls?
>
> I think an official looking Windows installer might be a nice feature 
> and I was looking at WiX (http://wix.sourceforge.net/) as one option. 
> Any suggestions here? Or is what we are installing simple enough so that 
> a .zip file is sufficient and we shouldn't bother with an installer?
>
> -Hazen
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I have been offering (updated very irregularly--I last built it last 
year) a windows binary version (http://dishaw.org/plplot/).  In order to 
keep it small, I did not incorporate Qt and kept it pretty minimal in 
features.  I also started writing a better driver for the MS Windows 
platform.

The problem, as I see it (and it may have been fixed in the current 
trunk) is I had to modify the CMakefiles in order to build a library 
independent version of the PLplot library.  A library independent 
version allows the programmer the flexibility on which C library is used 
as there are four different libraries in Visual C (static, static with 
debug, multithreaded, multithreaded with debug).  Without a library 
independent version, the binary package will have to contain four 
different versions in order to get linking to work.

I can try the latest SVN trunk to see if it builds the libraries 
correctly.  If it doesn't, I am willing to work with a better 
practitioner of CMake to incorporate the necessary changes.

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