I know that Plplot "works". However,
I intend to include gcc 5.1 with the next Fortran Tools
and would like to include Plplot.
If Plplot is built with Cygwin or any MinGW that does not
have gcc 5.1, plplot will not work with any Fortran program
compiled with gfortran 5.1 because the *.mod files are not
compatible (e.g., plplot.mod).
Hence TDM for now. I can wait until other Mingw versions
use gcc 5.1, but lots of folks think TDM is one of the best,
so it would be nice to get Plplot to work with it. (One of the
nice things about TDM64 is that it includes both 32 and 64
bit functionality, so one can compile 32-bit apps, for example.)
Thanks for the pointer on testing, but that is not useful
until Plplot is built and at least runs on the first program I try.
Maybe Arjen will have more ideas--smart guy indeed. I really
appreciate the comments from both of you.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
wrote:
> On 2015-07-10 12:27-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote:
>
> Alan: mingw-64 etc. does not yet include gcc 5.1;
>> that is why I am using the TDM version.
>>
>
> Understood for your normal use case. But you should not need gcc 5.1
> just to test that PLplot is working. So my point remains for the
> special case of reporting bugs, you should stick to Windows platforms
> we currently support (MinGW, MinGW/MSYS, Cygwin, MSVC) or platforms
> where we plan to support them in the near future (MinGW-w64/MSYS2).
>
> Fortunately, for the first bug you reported, Arjen could verify it on
> MinGW/MSYS and solve it for that platform. But his comprehensive tests
> on that platform and on Cygwin reveals no sign of the bug you reported
> below. So Arjen is going to have to do some guessing to solve that
> issue you found on TDM. He is a pretty smart guy so he might guess
> what is wrong, but that is far from ideal so you might get a
> much quicker resolution to the issue if you demonstrated it on
> one of our supported platforms above or else on MinGW-w64/MSYS2.
>
> I have no access (other than a very slow wine platform) to Windows
> myself so I hasten to add I make no promises for Arjen for the
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 case because he is a busy guy, but we are all in
> agreement that is a platform which we should support on Windows, and a
> report from you for the pure MinGW-w64/MSYS2 case might motivate Arjen
> to attempt a comprehensive test on that platform if he cannot guess
> what the problem is on TDM.
>
> Alan
>
>
>> Arjen: with the new version, plplot builds (the static
>> library version), but when I run it, I get all kinds of
>> errors about missing routines of the form __imp*.
>> being called from wingcc (for example).
>>
>> So I tried the DLL version (which is what I think I
>> was successful with before). make was strange.
>> I would get an error, then try it again. It got further
>> before getting another error. After about 5-6 tries
>> it went all the way.
>>
>> Trying to compile a code then produced an error
>> trying to load wingcc.dll. Windows says it isn't
>> suitable to run on Windows; in a bash shell, it
>> just says there is an error loading wingcc.dll.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>
> __________________________
> 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
> __________________________
>
--
Walt Brainerd
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