On 2014-11-28 13:02-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote: > SUCCESS!
Good! [...] > Another question: if I (or you) provide this install directory as a > Windows binary distribution, how many systems do you think it > would work on? Good question! To avoid dependency hell (which is likely the fundamental constraint on how many different Windows platforms a binary distribution of PLplot would work on) you would want to (1) build and install PLplot with internal static libraries that are (2) linked to static versions of external libraries, and likely (3) using a static run-time as well (although I am not sure on that point, and "real" Windows users should chime in here). (1) is already implemented; you simply specify -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF as a cmake command-line option. I think (2) and (3) are possible with our CMake-based build system, but no PLplot developer has yet investigated what CMake options are required (or what other steps you have to do) to implement these features. If you are interested further, I would be willing to ask about these issues on the CMake list. Once you know how to deal with issue (2) and possibly (3), then cmake provides fairly sophisticated facilities to create binary distributions from the contents of the install tree. 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
