Hi Arjen: Commit 76f6a78 includes a simple fix for the "cannot convert" LPCTSTR to LPCWSTR build issues you discovered that has been bugging us for qute some time now and which I was recently able to verify on my Wine/MinGW/MSYS platform. So I think this fix is a big step forward.
However, (see commit message for details) I ran into one other build issue concerning the declaration of rand_s which is implemented in drivers/wxwidgets_dev.cpp with the following two lines: #define _CRT_RAND_S #include <stdlib.h> This declaration method is exactly what is suggested by <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx>, and appeared to work fine for Phil during his pre-release testing of PLplot-5.12.0 on the MSVC platform, and I suspect (but need confirmation from you) it also won't be a problem on that platform for this version of the code. But at least my version 4.7.2 of g++ on MinGW/MSYS is complaining about that declaration so my guess (which needs confirmation from you) is you will run into the same issue for modern g++ on MinGW-w64/MSYS2 (either 32-bit or 64-bit). In which case, I hope you have the C++ expertise (which I don't have) to figure out what change you have to make in the rand_s declaration to convince g++ to compile that code. In sum, please run a MinGW-w64/MSYS2 (either 32-bit or 64-bit) test and an MSVC test for this latest code base to insure my present fix works for the "cannot convert" LPCTSTR to LPCWSTR issue works on those platforms. And if for either one you run into a problem with the above declaration of rand_s, I hope you know how to fix it (since I don't). 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
