On 2011-07-28 10:37+1000 Sisyphus wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan W. Irwin"
>
>> If cmake-2.8.5 doesn't work properly for you, then I would recommend
>> trying MinGW/MSYS instead which has been tested fairly extensively by
>> our developers who use Microsoft Windows and also by me for the wine
>> version of Windows
>
> Not so sure about the "MSYS" bit. Alan, did you really mean to recommend MSYS 
> ?
>
> The MINGW installation advice at
> http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Configure_PLplot_for_MinGW/CLI
>
> states (regarding MSYS):
>
> "The MSYS command window (rxvt) is somewhat awkward to use with an 
> interactive program. It buffers the output, so that the question what device 
> you want (as printed by plinit()) appears only after you have given an 
> answer. The net effect is that the program appears to hang. It is easier to 
> use an ordinary DOS-box."
>
> Assuming that to be the case, I've always used cmake/mingw in the Windows 
> cmd.exe shell to build plplot - where it all works well.
> I'm a bit doubtful that there's something to be gained (and nothing to be 
> lost) by using msys.
> (However, I haven't actually tried using MSYS.)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

Hi Rob:

I have had no trouble with MSYS on the wine version of Windows, and I
believe others have had success with MSYS on Microsoft Windows as well
so the information on our wiki may be dated. Furthermore, MSYS gives
you a much more up-to-date bash version than what you get with
winbash.  And bash scripts are what we use to run all the PLplot tests
that have been built into our CMake-based build system.  So with
MinGW/MSYS you can run (if you have used the cmake option
-DBUILD_TEST=ON) test targets such as "test_noninteractive" and
"test_interactive" to do a thorough test of PLplot on Windows.
However, it is probably fair to say that MinGW alone would be a
simpler environment than MinGW/MSYS to build PLplot for those not
interested in detailed testing of PLplot.

Alan

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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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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