Hi, On 6/30/10 2:43 PM, P Kishor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Marius Schamschula >[...] > options (at least, what I would call relevant options). > > I wonder why cmake was chosen and not configure.
Apart from that what Arjen wrote, cmake also opened the possibility to use other compilers (Visual C++) and other OS (Windows, Mac OS X). This was considered important and configure is not up to this tasks. cmake has other problems, but it turned out to be really useful and powerful. HTH, Werner > > >> >> On Jun 30, 2010, at 7:07 AM, P Kishor wrote: >> >>> I am having the weirdest problem. Even though I have libpng, >>> libgd, and libjpeg correctly installed (in /usr/local/) and am >>> using them with other projects, I can't get PLplot to build with >>> png/gif/jpeg output devices enabled. >>> >>> I am used to passing options to ./configure to build software, so >>> the cmake method is new to me. It is not apparent to me how I can >>> tell it to enable png, etc. >>> >>> I have tried using ccmake, which pops up an interactive menu to >>> enable/disable different options. I am able to set the >>> png/gif/jpeg options through that, but when I generate the >>> configuration, it doesn't stick. As a result, PLplot gets built >>> with no png output. I can successfully output SVG though. >>> >>> What do I have to do to enable png/gif/jpeg output via PLplot on >>> a Mac OS X (x86_64) 10.6.4 machine? >>> >>> -- Puneet Kishor >>> > > > > -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Angewandte Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10/134 A-1040 Wien Austria DVR-Nr: 0005886 email: [email protected] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) +43-(0)680-1419590 (mobile) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
