On 2013-03-05 22:21-0000 Owens, Thomas wrote: > I am attempting to install plplot on a Windows7 box with MinGW. > I have installed MinGW 4.6.2. > I have installed plplot-5.0.1. > > When I call >cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install .. > > I get a CMake Error: The source directory > "C:/Users/mv1/Downloads/plplot-5.0.1" does not appear to contain > CMakeLists.txt.
5.0.1 is the source of the trouble since it is such an ancient version of PLplot that its build system was not CMake-based at all. Instead of downloading PLplot-5.0.1 (released 2001-01-13), download the latest release of PLplot (5.9.9, released on 2011-10-13). Also, I have recently had a lot of success with CMake-2.8.10.2 (the latest CMake) and MinGW-4.7.0, the latest MinGW version that I have tried so far. So I suggest you also use CMake-2.8.10.2 and the latest MinGW (which is now 4.7.2). You can conveniently and easily install that latest MinGW version and all its dependencies using the installer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20120426/ Alan __________________________ 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); 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
