Hi Arjen: On 2015-06-09 09:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Could you also take this opportunity to update > <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Setup_cygwin/>? That page > already has some information (last updated in 2013) concerning > packages to install, but it is obviously far from complete. The goal > here should be to document complete information about Cygwin packages > so that it would be a straightforward for you (or anybody else) to use > this Wiki documentation to install Cygwin from scratch with the same > packages you have been installing over the last few weeks to provide a > complete PLplot environment on Cygwin. I haven't heard from you on this question yet, but I do hope you are willing to do this since it is really important information. > Of course, for the next time (after I finish my Tcl and related > changes) you will want to install the iwidgets package I mentioned and > change > > --cmake_added_options "-DENABLE_octave=OFF -DENABLE_ada=OFF -DENABLE_itk=OFF" > > to > > --cmake_added_options "-DENABLE_octave=OFF -DENABLE_ada=OFF" > > and also completely drop the > > --do_test_interactive no > > option. Those changes should allow you to do complete comprehensive > interactive testing of PLplot on Cygwin including the Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk > components of PLplot. I have just (commit id f4db3e8) completed my long-promised large set of build system changes for Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk that I would appreciate you testing as above on Cygwin when you get the chance. > With regard to the further possibility of dropping the above > -DENABLE_ada=OFF, for Cygwin, the current Ada language support is so > ancient it is not maintainable. Therefore, I have decided to attempt > to rewrite Ada language support from scratch over the next few days > using the approach of making minimal changes to existing modern C (or > C++) language support. That is the approach I used ~10 years ago to > implement Ada language support, and hopefully that same approach will > work again now (and also automatically solve the Ada language support > issue you found on Cygwin). But we will see how that goes, and if I > run into any issue I cannot straightforwardly figure out, I will > likely put Ada language support changes off indefinitely. I am going to put off Ada language support changes for at least a little while and maybe indefinitely because there is so much other PLplot build-system changes I would like to complete for this release cycle. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
