On 2013-09-17 11:04-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Arjen Markus [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:50 PM >> To: Alan W. Irwin >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Cygwin - for the next release? >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> ... >> >> I did note that pango is not found. Perhaps this is the cause for the cairo >> problems? >> For these I have been unable to find a reason - Google did not bring up >> anything that >> seemed relevant, nor did dependency walker or ldd show missing libraries. >> >> Well, I will try and dig further. >> > > The message was actually about pango, pangoft2 AND lasi. It is the last that > is not found.
Yes, you would have to build libLASi yourself on Cygwin in order to get the psttf device driver to work, but probably that psttf functionality is not worth the effort since you have all the different cairo (without dyndrivers) and qt PostScript device drivers working. It sounds to me like you are now finished with all the "easy" stuff on Cygwin, and the rest is going to take substantially more effort. Therefore, could you write up your current Cygwin results on our Wiki? Once that task is completed (hopefully in the next few days and still comfortably before the September 28th deadline for the release) I plan (unless you prefer to do it yourself) to write up the highlights of your Cygwin breakthrough in README.release while referring to your Wiki writeup for all the details. Of course, the wiki notes should include details of all the issues you encountered on the Cygwin platform, but in contrast I plan in README.release to emphasize the positive generalities of your breakthrough. After all, the fundamental goal of that section of the release notes should be to encourage Windows users to try out the Cygwin platform with many of the dependency issues solved so they get access to a much more complete and powerful PLplot than is readily available for other Windows platforms. If those release notes do encourage more Windows users to try building PLplot on Cygwin like I hope, then you might be able to recruit some additional manpower/expertise to help solve the remaining PLplot issues on Cygwin. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
