Hi Walt, Alan, The message appears to come from Visual Studio, so Walt uses the "Visual Studio" generator. My personal experience with that generator (or I should say generators, as there are at least seven, one of each supported version of Visual Studio and then you have the choice of architecture (ARM or Win64 or IA64, choose two, depending on the VS version, and there may be more as my installation is geared to 64-bits, IIRC). My preference is the "NMake Makefiles" generator, as that allows me to run the whole build procedure via a small batchfile.
My suggestion at the moment is that Walt use this particular generator, though I am interested to know which generator he used. Regards, Arjen -----Original Message----- From: Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> Sent: 15 April 2019 00:30 To: Walt Brainerd <walt.brain...@gmail.com> Cc: plplot_general <plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] Building plplot on Windows 10 On 2019-04-14 15:54-0600 Walt Brainerd wrote: > I am trying again without success to build plplot on Windows. > > cmake.exe -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ../plplot.git >& cmake.out > > produces > > Build FAILED. > > > "C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj" > (default target) (1) -> > > C:\walt\Software\Plplot\build_dir\CMakeFiles\3.14.2\VCTargetsPath.vcxproj(14,2): > error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" > was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is > correct, and that the file exists on disk. > > That file (of course?) does not exist in the C directory. > Help please for someone who does not know much about C++ or cmake. > I just want to build it to use it with Fortran. I can use Cygwin or MSYS. > Thanks. I can't help you with platform specifics since I don't have good access to any Windows platform other than Wine, and current Wine bugs stop me from trying out either MinGW-w64/MSYS2 or Cygwin on that platform. However, I do want to make the comment that in general, PLplot users have good luck with it on Windows. This claim is based on the fact that roughly half our users use various Windows platforms yet from the lack of complaints (other than yours) they appear to be having success with PLplot. Furthermore, Arjen's extensive tests of the Cygwin, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and MSVC platforms give good results in general. So my guess is whatever the issue is for you, it is likely a small unique one related to how your platform is configured to build software rather than any general problem with PLplot on Windows. Note, we do not support MSYS since the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 project has long superseded that. But to help find the source of what appear to be unique problems in your case please do give extensive details (e.g., much more than above such as a full CMake cache file, full cmake output, full build output) for your Cygwin platform. And also please try to install MinGW-w64/MSYS2 following the well-documented steps at <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmsys2%2Fmsys2%2Fwiki&data=02%7C01%7C%7C89174c21237c4f10f84108d6c128c7f6%7C15f3fe0ed7124981bc7cfe949af215bb%7C0%7C0%7C636908778237522820&sdata=ukmRkI5y6z6j2pYBe9hw7Ga3FzWl6Pq%2Bv5fhLKcOK4Y%3D&reserved=0> and give us detailed PLplot configuration and build results for that case as well. I assume once you give those details on one or both of those well-tested platforms, other PLplot users here with access to those platforms should be able to weigh in on what might be specifically wrong in your case. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin 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://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Fplplot-general&data=02%7C01%7C%7C89174c21237c4f10f84108d6c128c7f6%7C15f3fe0ed7124981bc7cfe949af215bb%7C0%7C0%7C636908778237522820&sdata=78YP7kOvDp7W2iM%2F6EJufnoxYxgYxybvJwClK1Kibrk%3D&reserved=0 DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
