Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-07-08 Thread Arjen Markus
Op ma 8 jul. 2019 om 20:32 schreef Brian Inglis : > > No, you are addressing - Andrey Repin - you can fix that > in > your Gmail address book in the Contacts list: > > https://support.google.com/mail/thread/5549719?hl=en > > -- Thank you - I had no idea how to correct that, but with tha

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-07-08 Thread Arjen Markus
Op ma 8 jul. 2019 om 14:36 schreef Marco Atzeri : > > this line is present at line 4 of the file. > Have you by chance modified it ? > > No, the line I posted appears to be the closing line for the comment/documentation. It is present in other such files, but was not in the copy in my installation

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-07-08 Thread Arjen Markus
Op ma 8 jul. 2019 om 06:23 schreef Arjen Markus : > > Hi Marco, > > I just tried building PLplot with CMake 3.14.5 and got this error message: > > -- OCTAVE_VERSION = 4.2.2 > -- OCTAVE_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/octave/4.2.2/liboctave.dll.a > -- OCTINTERP_LIBRARIES

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-07-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Marco, I just tried building PLplot with CMake 3.14.5 and got this error message: -- OCTAVE_VERSION = 4.2.2 -- OCTAVE_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/octave/4.2.2/liboctave.dll.a -- OCTINTERP_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/octave/4.2.2/liboctinterp.dll.a -- OCTAVE_INCLUDE_PATH = /usr/include;/usr/include/octave-4.

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-07-01 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Marco, Op ma 1 jul. 2019 om 14:41 schreef Marco Atzeri : > > > please Arjen, > bottom posting and trim on this mailing list > Oops, Gmail is hiding the original mail from me under three dots. I will try and keep this in mind. (It also persists in showing a name it picked up at one point with t

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-06-28 Thread Arjen Markus
Thanks - got it. Another piece of information to forward :). Regards, Arjen Op vr 28 jun. 2019 om 15:51 schreef Houder : > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:01:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > [snip] > > > have uploaded to provide via the packaging distribution mirrors. Some > > maintainers will keep their c

Re: Question about packaging and cygport

2019-06-28 Thread Arjen Markus
ri, 28 Jun 2019 at 11:56, Arjen Markus wrote: > > In the context of the PLplot project (plplot.sf.net) we are interested > > in the details of how software is packaged for Cygwin, in particular > > how CMake is packaged (development of this package is rather fast and > > we

Question about packaging and cygport

2019-06-28 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, In the context of the PLplot project (plplot.sf.net) we are interested in the details of how software is packaged for Cygwin, in particular how CMake is packaged (development of this package is rather fast and we attempt to keep up with it, so that we can clean up the various workarounds).

Re: gfortran problems with equivalence statement in module

2019-01-27 Thread Arjen Markus
out of curiosity I experimented a bit with this source code. It can be simplified to: module test integer, parameter :: rb = kind(1.0) real(kind=rb) :: ka(5,13,10) , absa(65,10) equivalence (ka(1,1,1),absa(1,1)) end module test If I make it a program, rather than a module, the compiler ha

Re: Problem with installation of Octave

2019-01-08 Thread Arjen Markus
. There is no command "xinit". I start the X server using the command "X" and that seems to work fine. However, I do see a pacakge xinit now that I explicitly look for it. Regards, Arjen Op di 8 jan. 2019 om 13:25 schreef Marco Atzeri : > > Am 08.01.2019 um 03:49 schri

Problem with installation of Octave

2019-01-08 Thread Arjen Markus
h with and without the GUI that Octave comes with (octave --no-gui gave the same error messages). Kind regards, Arjen Markus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: ada gnat import library missing ?

2017-11-05 Thread Arjen Markus
or whether it is somehow referred to by the program, but it seems rather odd. (The tests within the PLplot project are less successful, but that has to do with the identification of the gnat library by CMake) Regards, Arjen 2017-11-02 13:25 GMT+01:00 Arjen Markus : > Hello Marco, Jon, > >

Re: ada gnat import library missing ?

2017-11-02 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello Marco, Jon, good to hear this - I will try this updated GNU version within the context of the PLplot project. Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

Re: How to use CMake with cygwin/mingw toolchain?

2017-10-20 Thread Arjen Markus
That's the one indeed - I have no experience with the MinGW distribution under Cygwin though. Perhaps I should try that one too :). Regards, Arjen 2017-10-20 16:25 GMT+02:00 Peter Quiring : > Hi Arjen, > > I'm talking about the mingw that is included with cygwin, not the > standalone version. >

Re: How to use CMake with cygwin/mingw toolchain?

2017-10-20 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Peter, I am not sure I understand all the details, but I have been using CMake under Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 (I have to be complete here) for quite a few years now. Both Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 have their own versions of CMake, so I use those. Do you mean to cross-compile? Regards, Arj

Problem with CMake and installation directories whose name contains a space

2017-05-17 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, In the PLplot project (http://plplot.sf.net) we have encountered a problem with CMake 3.6.2 as part of the Cygwin packages: if you specify an installation directory whose name contains a space, the configuration step gets into an endless loop, more specifically, it writes a file export_plpl

Re: problem with fortran common block in shared library

2017-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
I see I replied to that first message - completely forgot about it. I have just tried a bunch of varieties of !GCC$ ... but none seem to work. Perhaps you should ask on the GFortran list or on comp.lang.fortran too. Regards, Arjen 2017-01-06 16:26 GMT+01:00 Bill Greene : > I am encountering the

Re: using fortran common block from dll created by gfortran

2015-06-25 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Satish, I would have expected the /cb/ notation to work, but if you export the individual variables instead, it does get compiled. However, my test program shows that the data in the main program are not the ones in the DLL, even though I applied both DLLEXPORT and DLLIMPORT. It might be bette

Re: using fortran common block from dll created by gfortran

2015-06-24 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi, while this is not directly related to gfortran on Cygwin, this article might help you appreciate the issues involved: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/535307 Are you bound to common blocks? If not, you may get better results when you put the data in a module. Regards, Arjen 2015-06-24

Re: How ask a question on Tkgate for Cygwin ?

2015-06-05 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Rémi, that seems to be a minor glitch - the file README is expected, but is not there - it is typically a text file stating what the program/package/... is all about and who wrote etc. You can simply create a file by that name and rerun the build to get rid of this error. I do not know what the

Re: How ask a question on Tkgate for Cygwin ?

2015-05-31 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Rémi, you may need to run autoconf to update the configure file. That may bring in the necessary code to properly identify the platform. Regards, Arjen 2015-05-31 12:39 GMT+02:00 Rémi 2005 : > Hello, > I've worked hard and I found some responses alone. But it's not enough... > Cygwin doesn't

Re: Running a program in Cygwin that was compiled in Linux

2014-10-17 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Linda, I doubt very much that you can just copy the object files and get a working program that way. Does g77 have a cross-compile option? An alternative is to identify the problem areas in the programs and adjust them to standard Fortran (g77 does allow a number of non-standard constructs, bu

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-10 Thread Arjen Markus
Right, that makes sense. There is indeed no way for the package manager to handle that scenario without external help, such as a PATH variable that includes the various directories these extra DLLs reside in. Regards, Arjen 2014-10-10 13:22 GMT+02:00 : > In message > > you write: >>This mig

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-10-10 Thread Arjen Markus
This might the way the pkgIndex.tcl file for this particular extension has been implemented, but like Jan says, that is not the Tcl way. Here is a sample that illustrates the more acceptable procedure: # Tcl package index file, version 1.0 if {![package vsatisfies [package provide Tcl] 8.6]} {re

Re: Installing a program as a Windows service on Windows 8.1

2014-05-21 Thread Arjen Markus
You may need to open the properties dialogue for that file and edit the properties. I have run into similar problems myself (installing a DLL via a makefile causes the loss of the execute permission in my case. No idea why.) To do this, select the file in question in Windows Explorer and press the

Re: g77 on cygwin64

2014-02-11 Thread Arjen Markus
I agree with Andrey - could you give us examples of code fragments that are not accepted by gfortran but are by g77? Regards, Arjen 2014-02-12 8:14 GMT+01:00 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, Scott T. Marshall! > >> Would it be very difficult to take the old g77 source and recompile it >> for cygwin64

Iwidgets requires Itk 3.4, but only 3.3 available

2014-01-13 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I would like to use Iwidgets 4.0.1 under Cygwin, but this requires Itk 3.4. The set-up utility however has Itcl 3.4 and Itk 3.3. Where can I find the correct version? Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Problem compiling Qt4

2013-09-09 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I have been trying to use Qt4 in the PLplot project as one of the graphical devices, but I ran into two problems building Qt4: - While compiling the libraries, it turned out that the constant QT_OPEN_LARGEFILE' was not defined. I could solve this by adding a definition in the file mksp

Re: wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
I have very recently had the same problem with pango - the library complained that it could not match any fonts. After installing fontconfig it all worked. Regards, Arjen 2013/8/24 nu774 : > Hi, > Without fontconfig, wish(Tk) seems to crash on the attempt to create > widgets (which requires some

Re: Problem with cairo - missing routine

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
If Cygwin is no more than that, why does it have Windows API libraries? Regards, Arjen 2013/9/7 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, Arjen Markus! > >> I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples >> on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. > >> The b

Re: cairo library is missing cairo_win32_surface_create

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Sorry, I thought my previous mail was withheld - it did not appear in a reasonable time, so I reformulated my question. Regards, Arjen 2013/9/7 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, Arjen Markus! > >> I would like to use the cairo library but it turns out that the >> routine cairo_win32

cairo library is missing cairo_win32_surface_create

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I would like to use the cairo library but it turns out that the routine cairo_win32_surface_create is missing, whereas many other such routines are present. What can be done about this? Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Problem with cairo - missing routine

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. The build fails because there is no routine "cairo_win32_surface_create" in the cairo libraries. All manner of other surface creation routines are present. How can this be solved?

Problem with fonts and pango

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples (see SourrceForge) on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. While the build succeeds if I exclude the ordinary Windows features (the routine "cairo_win32_surface_create" is missing from the cairo libraries), I get warning

Problems with cairo and pango

2013-09-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples (http://plplot.sf.net) on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. While the build succeeds if I exclude the ordinary Windows features (the routine "cairo_win32_surface_create" is missing from the cairo libraries), I get war

Re: Mingw build problem for TCL

2013-07-23 Thread Arjen Markus
I have had problems with file permissions myself - in my case editing a file that is part of a fairly large project may cause build errors later on, when such a file is copied during the build process, because the Windows permissions are translated into "---". It may very well be that you are d

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Arjen Markus
According to the original thread it has to do with handling the stack. The small program is meant to show that there is a discrepancy between the way Cygwin handles this versus the way Linux does that - something to do with accessing more memory pages than expected, but this is not an area I am fam

Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, the bug I am reporting here on behalf of Alan Irwin surfaced in the combination wine and Cygwin (Alan summarised it here: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-June/100328.html). It has to do with the way Cygwin handles forks. The bug can be illustrated with this small program:

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Corinna, you seem to have hit the right spot. The parent directories had the permission -- according to Cygwin, but I could still enter them via cd. Things go wrong if under Cygwin a file gets _copied_ via cp or something similar that takes the file permissions according to POSIX from the p

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
I noticed that if I use noacl, then I get the correct looking POSIX permissions, but the Windows permissions make it impossible to use the file. Try: cat gnulliver.h I have had the same problem with a package built via autotools, so it is more general than CMake. (I first reported this on the CMa

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Oops, my mistake. The correct invocation of CMake is: cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../ (These generators are part of CMake, not of the tar file) Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cyg

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Here it is. Regards, Arjen problem-cygwin.tgz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Trying again: - Unpack the tar file in a separate directory, say, and create a work directory in which to configure and build it, something like: src/ - contents of the tar-file work/ - directory to work in CMakeLists.txt - the main CMake file - Run CMake in the work directory

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Well, I got a message back about using too many keywords that made it look like an off-topic reply. But without an indication (of course) of what these keywords are. Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
I have a small testcase, but my replies are consistently refused. How do I solve that? Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Problems with file permissions during a build

2013-06-21 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I have been experiencing problems with building several unrelated projects on Cygwin/Windows 7. One of them is GCC 4.8.1, another is a project that uses CMake to create the Makefiles. The problems occur either during the configuration (the CMake-based project) or during the make itself (GCC