On 2014-11-28 08:30-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Walt, > > > > I have encountered such messages myself - they are due to the PLplot start up > routines not being able to find the dynamic drivers (indeed they reside in > the DLLs in the "drivers" directory). Within the build tree, it is easy > enough for the routines to find them, but outside you may need to set the > environment variable PLPLOT_DRV_DIR. > > > > A further problem you would encounter is the location of the fonts and some > other files. For this set the environment variable PLPLOT_LIB_ENV to the > directory containing the .fnt and .al files. (Note that default values are > used that correspond to the installation prefix, but if there is some > discrepancy, then these environment variables will help out). > > > > A small caveat: I have not actually tried all of this just now (I scanned the > source code for the correct names), but in the not-so-distant past I had to > resort to this method, so I am confident it works. If not, let me know and I > will dive into it. Having done it before means I should be able to find it > quickly.
Hi Arjen and Walt: @Arjen: Just to clarify, I haven't tried extensive testing of the "MinGW Makefiles" generator case, and I know there are continuing PLplot problems with blanks in pathnames. So for either of those cases, the above historical workarounds (or some other workaround) might be needed for Windows. And also for 5.10.0, the "MSYS Makefiles" case with no blanks in pathnames passed some limited build tree tests but not install-tree tests. However, I just double-checked and for the git master branch (at least for commit id 3e817e8 on that branch that came after the release of 5.10.0,see details at the bottom of <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/>), I finally got all comprehensive testing to work without issues for the the "MSYS Makefiles" case with no blanks in pathnames case. @Walt: I rarely do comprehensive testing on my Wine platform because it is an incredibly slow version of Windows (comprehensive tests take a couple of days of cpu time rather than a couple of hours). However, I don't anticipate that we have introduced any Windows build or test issue on the master branch since the last time I did that comprehensive test. Therefore, I suggest you use the latest git master branch version of PLplot and the "MinGW MSYS" generator with no blanks in any pathname to see if you can replicate the good Windows result I had for that case for an earlier master branch version. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
