Hi Alan,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 9:12 AM
>
> 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.
>
An inspection of the code did not bring up a glaring mistake, so I am puzzled
as well. At the very least at the moment. The only thing I can imagine is that
the stdlib.h header file is not actually included.
> 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).
>
Okay, that is clear enough. I will try this.
Regards,
Arjen
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