Hey folks -
As my first posting to this list, I will of course post about a problem I
have with building PLplot. I am trying to build PLplot on a MinGW (Windows)
system, specifically, a MinGW system that was installed with Strawberry
Perl. I am a Linux guy and a Perl guy, specifically PDL, and I would like
to see Plplot become PDL's general-purpose plotting interface. The problem
is that one of the main developers of PDL said he had trouble with the
install and hasn't given PLplot much thought since that time. I thought,
"Oh c'mon, lemme see this thing. It can't be that bad..." And then I
couldn't even get PLplot to compile on my Windows setup. :)
So here's the deal: Windows XP on a virtualbox, service pack 1. (It hasn't
been running long enough to get through all the service packs yet.) It's
being run on a mingw system installed with the latest Strawberry Perl
release. I'm sure you'll need more details, but I'm not sure what info you
need, so please do ask for more! I want to figure out how to do this with
Strawberry Perl's setup - as opposed to a vanilla MinGW setup - because I
expect that will describe a large portion of my target audience.
I made the system with a few different install prefixes, and they always
seem to give the same problem. At around 73%, I see a pair of lines saying:
Linking C shared library ..\dll\libplplotd.dll
Creating library file: ..\dll\libplplotd.dll.a
It builds some other .dll files. Then at around 87%, I get this:
[ 87%] Generating test_dyndrivers_dir/mem.rc
at which point a little window pops up saying:
This application has failed to start because libplplotd.dll was not
found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
I know the build process just made that .dll file. I know nothing about
windows dynamic linking so I am clueless as to how I should proceed.
Thanks.
David
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