Instructions on the Use of PLPLOT and MYIMSL

Introduction

This document describes how to link the plplot and myimsl libraries into your own codes using MS Visual C++ on machines running MS Windows 98/XP (this version may work on other versions of Windows).

plplot is a scientific plotting package which can be used to create standard x-y plots, semi-log plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. The plplot package is distributable under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) with some exceptions. For more information about "Copyright" and "on-line manual", please see the home page (http://plplot.sourceforge.net).

myimsl is a small-sized package solving specialized problems which is coded and distributed by Professor Gang-Gyoo Jin of Korea Maritime University in Busan, South Korea. The myimsl library contains modules for eigenvalues, polynomial roots, sort, norms, FFT, cubic spline, ODEs, real-coded genetic algorithm (RCGA), symbolic-coded genetic algorithm (SCGA), Simulated Annealing, fuzzy control, etc. myimsl includes the new vector and matrix classes coded by Alexander Volya (http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~volya/alexander/) for easy manipulation of real and complex vectors and matrices.

Contents of plplot.zip and myimsl.zip

plplot.zip

For the detailed information, please see the above home page.

myimsl.zip

Below you can find simplified descriptions of this library.

Module	Description
myimsl.lib	library file
anneal.h	prototypes for Simulated Annealing
cmatrix.h	prototypes of the functions using complex matrix and vector classes
complex.h	prototypes for complex numbers
diffeqs.h	prototypes for ODEs and difference equations
fuzzy.h	prototypes for fuzzy control
imsl.h	prototypes of the functions using vector and matrix array
rcgas.h	prototypes for RCGAs
realtype.h	prototypes and codes for some basic functions
rmatrix.h	prototypes of the functions using real matrix and vector classes
scgas.h	prototypes for SCGAs

Requirements

You would need MS Visual C++ version 5, 6 or higher for linking two libraries created in release mode.

Installation and setting instructions

1. Unzip the two zipped files into the directories, C:\plplot and C:\myimsl, respectively. You can extract the files of myimsl in any directory you want, but not plplot.

2. During execution of your program, plplot find the font files (located in C:\plplot\lib with the extension .fnt). You have to set the environmental variable PLPLOT_HOME as SET PLPLOT_HOME="C:\PLPLOT" and restart your PC or simply put the font files in the same directory where your plplot program is executed.

3. Run MS Visual C++ and create an empty project for win32 console applications. When library functions are used in your code, you need to include related header files with the #include preprocessor directive.

4. Add two include and library directory paths to MS Visual C++.

5. When calling functions in a library, the library name must be included in the library module box.

6. When you have some link errors ('conflicts with use of other libs') during the link process, add /nodefaultlib:"libc.lib" for the release mode or /nodefaultlib:"libcd.lib" for the debug mode in the project option box. This is due to the lower version of plplot.