Hi Alan,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
>
> > 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.
>
Ah, good to know that.
>
> > [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.
>
These differences are by design: programs built for Cygwin require a Cygwin
environment to work, whereas programs built using MinGW can be used outside
MinGW and behave as native Windows programs (or at least that is the intent :)).
I am fine with that list of priorities.
Regards,
Arjen
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