Hi Arjen: On 2015-04-15 12:16-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
> Well, I feel comfortable with Cygwin, and from the point of using it, also with MinGW (and to a lesser extent MSYS). Installing new stuff on MinGW is a bit of a pain, as there is not a single point of entry like with Cygwin. I have, however, hardly any experience with MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and the last time I looked at it, it was even worse vis-à-vis available software than MinGW. But that may have changed. Apparently it has. There are currently 5638 + 3563 free software packages for MinGW-w64/MSYS2 located at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/> and <https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/x86_64/>. Installation of those packages is controlled by the pacman automatic installer that has been ported by the project to Windows. If you install that automatic installer (see "Installing and upgrading" at <https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/>), you should be able to find out the complete story quickly, but I just did a very quick survey of the above two locations, and found, for example, cmake, pango, cairo, qt, wxwidgets, python, lua, Tcl/Tk, pkg-config, swig, etc. Therefore, it appears that the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 is a fully loaded free software distribution giving access to the same packages as Cygwin. However, MinGW-w64/MSYS2 packages apparently don't have the same baggage as the equivalent Cygwin packages, i.e, they depend on native windows tools and libraries rather than cygwin.dll. > [MinGW-w64/MSYS2] is largely terra incognita for me. And for the rest of us too. So even with all your existing PLplot-Cygwin knowledge, and the similarities between Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2, there are important differences between Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and those might make it initially difficult for you to get a PLplot build to work on MinGW-w64/MSYS2. For that reason I think Cygwin should be your first priority, but I would recommend MinGW-w64/MSYS2 as your second priority because of all the benefits of getting that platform to work for PLplot. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
