More DLL Woes

[David Coe]

Christian Soeller wrote:
> 
> Somebody explained that some time ago. Something to do with the
> fortran routines not containing a 'main' function. I solved it by
> adding explicitly 'main' functions in f2c generated code. Your
> workaround seems to do it as well.

Have you still got the mail message you could forward on to me? I've
rejoined the list after a gap of a few months...
 
> But my other question is: I would like to avoid going through the hassle of
> building the dlls and libpgplot.a myself. Could you make them available ?
> Have you also built the C interface (libcpgplot)?

Building the static libraries really is just a trivial adjustment of
linked libraries; put the attached file in sys_cygwin and issue makemake
as usual. Make and make cpg gives both libpgplot.a and libcpgplot.a. Be
aware that the HPLJ libraries won't compile under G77/F2C on Linux or
Cygwin nor has the native MS Powerstation code been ported to Cygwin
(yet) - I find the X11 and Postscript drivers work fine.

I really don't trust the DLL's yet (who would when the compiler crashes
mid-way through). If you pass the above static libraries through the
shell script on my original email, I guess you'll see what I mean. One
thing I do notice is that the DLLs don't pick up environment variables
which is a bit of a killer for PGPLOT ... is this also a well-known
characteristic?

Good luck

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