On 2015-11-28 02:02-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > MinGW-w64/MSYS2 is quite a new distribution of free software for > Windows, but it already is almost as complete as Cygwin, the libraries > it supplies (unlike the Cygwin ones) are native Windows libraries > (i.e., they do not link to some additional dll such as cygwin.dll), it > has exponentially growing popularity, and Greg already has obtained > excellent comprehensive PLplot test results for that platform. To get > access to MinGW-w64/MSYS2 you should start by reading > <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/MinGW-w64-MSYS2/>.
I should have added that Cygwin has set the standard for Windows distribution of free software for a long time. Both Arjen and Greg have reported essentially perfect comprehensive test results for an extremely powerful (because of the presence of essentially all free software libraries that are PLplot soft prerequistes) version of PLplot on Cygwin. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
