On 2010-03-21 10:43-0000 Vincenzo Urso Miano wrote:

> Hi
> I installed the make utility and It seems it worked!
> Now I have C:\Program Files\plplot\ which containes 4 folders: bin,
> lib,\include and share.
>
> I was trying to test the installation compiling the
> ..plplotBuild\examples\f77\x01f.f but honestly I don't know how to
> link it.
>
> If you want we can move it to the plplot malinglist, now. It does not
> seem a cmake related thing anymore.
>
> Thanks you very much for the help.

I think it is a good idea to move this back to plplot-general so I have
done so.

Building and linking all our examples is an inherent part of testing PLplot
so for general background help on your question above, please read 
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot.

Those comments were written by me and are necessarily Unix-oriented (since I
have no experience with Windows), but the new testing framework (available
in our svn trunk version and soon to be released as part of 5.9.6) _should_
work on all Windows platforms both in the build tree and install tree.  I
believe Arjen is right in the middle of evaluating that new test framework
on several Windows platforms.

On Linux, you would find the specific building and linking commands for
each of our examples (plus much more) using, e.g.,

make VERBOSE=1 test_noninteractive

but you will have to ask our Windows experts here the equivalent of that 
verbose build, link, and test command with Windows tools.

"test_noninteractive" is a target that obviously does a lot.  If you want to
get a lot more specific, then I suggest using the Windows equivalent
of "make help" to find out what you want.  For example, to find all the
targets to build the 7th standard example in our various languages on Unix,
try

softw...@raven> make help |grep 07
... x07a
... xthick07a
... x07c
... x07
... x07d
... x07f
... x07f95
... x07j
... target_x07ocaml

The "a" suffix stands for Ada, the "c" suffix stands for C, no suffix stands
for C++, the "d" suffix stands for D, the "f" suffix stands for Fortran 77,
the "f95" suffix stands for Fortran 95, and "j" suffix stands for Java,
and the "ocaml" index stands for OCaml.  So if you wanted to find out how
to build our 7th example under Fortran 95 on Unix, you would use

make VERBOSE=1 x07f95

Note, our scripting languages such as Python or Octave do not have an
examples build target associated with them for obvious reasons.

I hope these general comments and overview help you and everybody else
here with "how to build" questions.  I assume that Arjen will add
more Windows specifics here and on the Wiki once his Windows platform
tests have been completed.

Alan
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