Hi Alan,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 7:31 PM
>
>
> I am pretty confident this approach would work because it is equivalent to the
> approach I used to take for testing the old MinGW (without old MSYS) build
> that
> used the "MinGW Makefiles" generator on the Wine version of Windows. All those
> tests were done from a CMD environment using the old MinGW make command
> (mingw32-make.exe) but with the old MSYS bin directory on the PATH to give
> access to the Unix tools needed for the tests (but avoiding using those tools
> for the
> build itself). So I don't see why you cannot do the same with nmake.exe
> replacing
> mingw32-make.exe.
>
> In sum, I recommend you take another serious look at this general approach
> (with
> Unix tools used just for testing but expressly not used for the build) the
> next time
> (likely in 2017) that you have a chance to work on PLplot testing on the MSVC
> +
> ifort build platform.
>
I just finished cleaning up my batch file for running the examples under
Windows and writing a dedicated comparison program (see my commit). The reason
for writing this little program - which does no more than check if the contents
of the files are identical, not much else, no indication of where things differ
- was that my console froze when I tried to run the diff command (and several
others) outside the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 shell.
I am not sure it is completely impossible, but it was simpler to write this
little program than to hunt for the right magic incantation.
The script can easily be extended with any of the other programming languages -
I have now included C++, Fortran and Tcl only. For these the results are as
identical with the C ones as we want ;).
Regards,
Arjen
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