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- Geoffrey Furnish
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- Installation Instructions for DOS
-
- This latest version of the PLPLOT package incorporates numerous enhancements
- to the prior version. The package is designed to use MS C 6 for the C compiler
- and MS Fortran 5 for the Fortran compiler. The makefile will build the
- package once you have your environment set up correctly. The accompanying
- plconfig.cmd shows how I have my system set up. You will need to adjust the
- paths and etc to match your own system configuration.
-
- Note: I use OS/2 as my software development environement, even when targetting
- for DOS. If you wish to build directly under DOS, rename plconfig.cmd to
- plconfig.bat, edit the path settings, and proceed from there.
-
- Once these matters are resolved, build the package via:
- nmake links
- nmake
- nmake fonts
- nmake demos
-
- You can set PLFONTS=dir to get plplot to recognize wherever you decide
- to keep your fonts. \lib seems like a logical choice on my system.
-
- If you don't have a suitable make facility, get one. There are good public
- domain make utilities, in addition to Microsoft's NMAKE which I use. If you
- have used older NMAKE's, don't despair, the one that ships with MS C 6.0
- actually works quite well.
-
- Alternativley, this directory contains a file plmake.bat and associated
- lib response files which were used in earlier versions of PLPLOT. These are
- not up to date, as I don't use them anymore, but they should serve as a
- good example of how to go about building PLPLOT without a make facility.
- If you update the plmake.bat file, send it to me and I'll include it in the
- distribution.
-