The reason why I am bringing this libLASi news to the plplot-general list, is that -dev psttf, one of our premier devices, depends on libLASi so many of us have a vested interest in what is going on with libLASi.
In fact, Ed Trager has invited a number of PLplot developers to be developers for libLASi, and we have made a lot of progress with that library recently. We have established the project at SourceForge (sf.net/projects/lasi), made a new CMake build system which allows libLASi to be built on both Unix/Linux and windows, and consolidated the two code bases (one for FreeType versions below 2.2 and the other for 2.2+) into one code base where the API change from FreeType 2.1 to 2.2 is automatically configured by CMake without the user having to worry about it. The new version in the subversion repository at SourcForge passes build tests for the small number of windows and Linux systems accessible to us so it is time to broaden our testing before we make a libLASi release. If you would like to help with this testing process, here is how to test the latest libLASi version from svn. (1) Install the prerequisite pango development libraries. On Linux this is straightforward (e.g., "apt-get install libpango1.0-dev" on Debian stable), but substantially more complicated on windows, see comments by Werner Smekal at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31481797&forum_id=2199. (2) Check out the code from our SF svn repository using svn checkout https://lasi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lasi/trunk lasi where lasi is a non-existent or empty directory. (3) Configure libLASi as follows with the cmake command: mkdir build_dir cd build_dir cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$lasi_prefix -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON ../lasi >& cmake.out where $lasi_prefix is the libLASi installation prefix you have decided to use. Check cmake.out for any problems. N.B. cmake-2.4.5 is the minimum version of cmake that you can use to configure libLASi. (4) Build and install with make >& make.out make install >& make_install.out Check the *.out files for any errors or problems. (5) Configure PLplot with its CMake build system using export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$lasi_prefix/lib/pkgconfig _before_ the cmake command to help the PLplot CMake build system find the new libLASi that was installed above. For other details about how to use cmake to configure PLplot see http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. N.B. cmake-2.4.5 is the minimum version of cmake that you can use to configure PLplot. (6) build, install, and test build-tree examples (ctest now includes -dev psttc) from PLplot as usual. Good luck with your PLplot (via -dev psttfc) testing of the new libLASi and let us know of any problems. Please be sure to include your platform details in your report. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
