On 2011-10-05 17:16+1100 Sisyphus wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan W. Irwin" 
>> I think this bug means that 5.9.8 will not work on any Windows
>> platform.
>
> No problems with a static build of 5.9.8 on Windows using mingw.
> (I guess this is merely stating the obvious.)

No, it is good to know that, and thanks for that report.  In
retrospect, the reason why that works is ltdl_win32.c is only used for
the dynamic drivers case, and that case isn't supported by the static
build.

Of course, the static build doesn't support lots of other PLplot
features so we emphasize the shared library with dynamic devices build
instead as the default.  And it is for that default case, that 5.9.8
fails to build for Windows.

Therefore, we intend to deal with this issue with some urgency. We are
right in the middle of considering the quickest way to (a) completely
test the patch on all Windows systems accessible to us, and (b) make
the (tested) patch widely available for all our numerous Windows
users.

Alan

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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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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