Configure PLplot for Visual CXX CLI

2007-07-14T11:46:57Z

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You need a working Visual C installation. Start the command line interface and issue the following commands:

cd plplot
mkdir buildnmake
cd buildnmake
cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..
nmake
nmake install

This will build a shared plplot library and install all files into the directory <tt>plplot\buildnmake\install</tt>.

Alternatively you can use the GUI version of CMake, an easy-to-use user-interface that presents the available build options
and lets you set them. It is mostly a matter of taste, but:
* The GUI version provides an overview of the build opions that are available
* The command-line version is particularly useful if you are experimenting with these options, as it can be run from a batchfile

Some of the options that are available for cmake:

* <tt>-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF</tt>: static build of plplot
* <tt>-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON</tt>: makefiles provide verbose informations
* <tt>-DBUILD_TEST=ON</tt>: all examples will be built also (for test purposes)
* [[Configuration of wxWidgets driver]]

If you used the <tt>-DBUILD_TEST=ON</tt> option, you need to copy some files in order to run the examples:

cd examples\c
copy ..\..\..\data\*.fnt .

and additionally some dlls for a shared plplot built:

copy ..\..\src\plplotd.dll .
copy "..\..\bindings\c \plplotcxxd.dll" . (for c examples)
copy ..\..\lib\csa\csirocsa.dll . (if library was built)

and for the wxWidgets driver (if wxWidgets library is shared):

copy %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll\wxmsw26d_vc_custom.dll .

if this dll is not in the path.

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