Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-05 16:08- Schwartz, Steven J wrote: > Here's the top of the (correct) linux eps: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 > %%BoundingBox: 1 0 596 842 > %%Creator: Qt 4.8.2 > %%CreationDate: Fri Jul 5 16:40:03 2013 > %%Orientation: Landscape > ... snip ... > /pageinit { > % 210 *297 mm (landsca

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-07-05 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Dear All, Schwartz, Steven J wrote on 2013-07-04: >>> The qt ps and pdf files always generate a portrait page with the >>> plot spilling off the right hand edge of the page. >> >> On Linux I have just run >> >> examples/c/x01c -dev epsqt -o test.eps >> >> and >> >> examples/c

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-07-04 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Alan, > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:32:28 + > "Schwartz, Steven J" wrote: >> Alan, Arjen, et al., ... snip > My experience is MinGW-4.7.x is more reliable than previous versions > so I attribute the qt device driver run-time crashes you are > encountering to your > (forced) use of MinGW-4.4. >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution

2013-07-01 Thread phil rosenberg
>Point taken, but note binary distributors would also not want to >alienate the huge numbers of MinGW users as well.  MinGW-4.7.2 has >been averaging 20,000 downloads of its core package per month for the >7 months since its release.  And MinGW-4.6.2 has had 800 thousand (!) >downloads of its core

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution

2013-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-28 09:44- Schwartz, Steven J wrote: > There is a potential snag in your approach which is that the build-projects wrapping of a project's own autotools/whatever is only as good as that project's build strategy. Good, relatively small projects are probably ok. I've read tales of woe

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution

2013-06-28 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Alan Apologies for top-posting (from my phone). There is a potential snag in your approach which is that the build-projects wrapping of a project's own autotools/whatever is only as good as that project's build strategy. Good, relatively small projects are probably ok. I've read tales of woe a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 15:05-0700 phil rosenberg wrote: > One question though. If a binary version is built with gcc, can it be used by > Visual Studio or vica-versa? In general, I think the answer is no. It is best to build everything needed with a consistent tool chain. > If PLPlot wants to increase

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution

2013-06-27 Thread phil rosenberg
I would just like to add to the support for a binary distribution. Just a few weeks ago I was exchanging email with the writers of wxAstroCapture and mentioned PLPlot. They had heard of it but found it too difficult to build so used something else. I remember when I first attempted to compile it

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Steve: On 2013-06-26 13:48- Schwartz, Steven J wrote: > My impression is that the most difficult binaries are in the *nix world. It seems easier to create windows and mac binaries that will run without being too fussy about the version of everything else that is installed, but I have less

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Steve: Thanks for your contributions to this thread. More below in context. On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:32:28 + "Schwartz, Steven J" wrote: > Alan, Arjen, et al., > > I have been following this thread, and the parallel ones re Cygwin build and > also build_project, with some interest. We

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Arjen, Arjen Markus wrote on 2013-06-26: > Note, when I wrote "minimal distribution" I was thinking more along > the lines of minimzing the amount of work to build the distribution. Understood, but these two are not completely unrelated concepts, or at least they minimise differ

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Steven, interesting, my experience with Qt is very limited, but it definitely is something to keep in mind - as are your other experiences. Note, when I wrote "minimal distribution" I was thinking more along the lines of minimzing the amount of work to build the distribution. Besides drivers

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Alan, Arjen, et al., I have been following this thread, and the parallel ones re Cygwin build and also build_project, with some interest. We ship a binary Windows version of our QSAS software (which includes the Qt libraries and a somewhat stripped-down version of plplot which only drives our o

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-26 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, I am almost there: small batch file to define a bunch of environment variables. There is one thing that I do not quite like: The colour map files need to be installed in "c:\program files (x86)\plplot\share\plplot5.9.9" This is slightly annoying because this requires administrator rig

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-25 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, on MinGW the default value for CPACK_INSTALL_PREIX is now "C:/Program Files(x86)/plplot". It is the first part, "C:", that causes trouble. The trouble I had with MinGW/MSYS was rather strange - whenever I typed "make" in an MSYS-box, it ran the MicroSoft version of "make". When I typed

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-25 09:52+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > An absolute path as the install prefix is not acceptable, > I am afraid: CPack creates a directory tree under the > build directory that reflects exactly the directory of > the installation. That means that it would attempt to > create a subdirectory

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-25 Thread Arjen Markus
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:11:52 -0700 (PDT) "Alan W. Irwin" wrote: > Hi Arjen: > > This is an extremely interesting topic for me. More >below in context. > Hi Alan, Andrew, I have been experimenting a bit with CPack and I ran into a bunch of small problems but nothing that we should not be ab

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Ross
I agree with Alan's caution over this, however if we _can_ manage a windows binary distribution then that would immeasurably widen the appeal of plplot. The fact is that plplot is a complex beast to build given the dependencies and Windows users tend to be far less used to this kind of thing th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: This is an extremely interesting topic for me. More below in context. On 2013-06-24 14:42+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > We have discussed the possibility of binary distributions in the past, > but there never was an opportunity as far as I remember to really do > something about it. CMak

[Plplot-devel] Binary distribution?

2013-06-24 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, last week on the comp.lang.fortran newsgroup, someone asked about graphical libraries that can be used from Fortran programs. My suggestion for PLplot led to the following answer from Clive Page: -- Thanks, Arjen. I'm sure it's easy when you know how, but I find the documentation more