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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel > >
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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
