Re: Lua terminal err: No driver name or file name given.

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 20 June 2009, Tim Teatro wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Yesterday I downloaded and compiled the CVS version of GNUPLOT. I had
> to apt-get Lua, and follow the instructions here
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1127979
> 
> to get the configure script to pick it up. Compilation seems to go
> fine, but when I try to set the terminal:
> 
> gnuplot> set term lua
> Terminal type set to 'lua'
>          No Lua driver name or file name given!
> 
> I checked the config.log, and there's a bunch of nonsense about not
> finding lua.h. I'm not sure why, since
> 
> pkg-config --cflags "lua"
> -I/usr/include/lua5.1
> 
> Anyhow, the -I flag shows up fine in CPPFLAGS in the Makefile, but I
> don't know if it's being picked up or not by GCC.
> 
> Could anyone point me in the right direction?


"lua" is the name of a generic driver that can in theory create 
several different output formats.  The only one implemented at this
point is tikz, but the intent is that in the future there could be
others.  To create tikz output, you can either say
   set term lua tikz
or just
   set term tikz

This is similar to how the current gd terminal driver works.
It can be used to create gif, png, or jpeg output.  But you don't
say "set term gd", you say "set term png" and so on.