Hi Kourous, I think it is important to keep this exchange on the plplot-general list so that is what I have done. More below.
On 2013-09-01 03:55-0700 Kouros Bina wrote: > Alan: I used CMake 2.8 GUI and, I added BUILD_TEST is on and jpeg. What does one do after running CMake 2.8 GUI? Also, I determined that my compiler is Visual Studio 10 Win64. I cannot determine what the next step is. I would like to try some of the examples and then make some programs for plotting contour plots from data stored in files. What is done after running CMake 2.8 GUI? The general answer to your question is you run the targets that have been configured by our CMake-based build systems. Those include "all" (to build everything needed for an install) and "install" to install just the essential elements of PLplot that have been built in the build tree to the install tree (but do not install intermediate files that are not used in the final product to make the install tree as compact as possible). Also, for all Unix platforms and some Windows platforms the targets "test_noninteractive" and "test_interactive" are available to test all non-interactive and interactive devices using all our standard PLplot examples in the build tree. Note on Windows those targets are only available if you have MSYS on your PATH since those targets depend on MSYS applications such as bash.exe. Note that although my principal platform is Linux, I also do some command-line testing using the combination of MinGW-4.7.2/MSYS/Wine-1.6. For that combination I use either the "MSYS Makefiles" or "MinGW Makefiles" CMake generator and both work well on the Wine-1.6 version of Windows. I am also assured by others that those two generators give good results for the Microsoft version of Windows as well. For the "MSYS Makefiles" case, I build the targets referred to above by using make all make install make test_noninteractive make test_interactive For the "MinGW Makefiles" case, I remove sh.exe from the PATH but leave the rest of MSYS on the PATH including bash.exe. Then after cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .... is run I build the above targets using mingw32-make.exe all etc. The reason why sh.exe must be removed from the PATH is the mingw32-make.exe application changes its interpretation of paths in a way that is not consistent with what CMake has configured if sh.exe is on the PATH. I hope these generalities (which I am forced to use since I don't have access to the compilers you use) will help make what is said in the wiki a bit clearer. However, if you have further questions specific to your particular set of Microsoft compilers, I think there are others lurking here who have enough experience with those to give you further help. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
