#179 os x gnuplot wxwigets issue
I have been said in ticket #1482 that wxWigets 3.0 does not work with gnuplot and I have to use earlier version, as gnuplot will not do any thing about it.
indeed the ticket #1482 has been closed as work for me.
wxWidgets 3.01 is the stable release
previous version is 2.8 and cannot be compiled after 10.7
Error: wxWidgets-2.8 cannot be built on Moc OS X >= 10.7 with Xcode >= 4.4, please use port wxWidgets-3.0 or wxgtk-2.8 instead
Error: org.macports.fetch for port wxWidgets-2.8 returned: wxWidgets-2.8 cannot be built on Moc OS X >= 10.7 with Xcode >= 4.4, please use port wxWidgets-3.0 or wxgtk-2.8 instead
Well I'm running 10.9 and 10.10 is coming this october.
I tried also wxgtk-2.8 using fink, but this version is even works than gnuplot 4.6.5 with wxWidget 3.0, it is not usable there is a font issue that make that there is no legend.
In that sense gnuplot 4.6.5 with wxWidget 3.0 works well except if we want to use gnuplot --persist or gnuplot <file.plt> & with pause mouse close as last instruction in pot file as those are causing a crash.</file.plt>
So if wxWiget 2.8 is working for
can you please provide instruction as who to install gnuplot + wxWidget 2.8 ?
can you provide the bug report you raised agains wxWidget 3.0 as you know it is not working ?
As of now I'm still not really able to use gnuplot on OS X with an interactive terminal, qt terminal will be usable once the ports will be updated, macports will be the first likely.
Alternatively can you provide way to compile form source gnuplot 4.6.6 with qt ?
In despite of my efforts of indicative to gnuplot configure where is qt, in macports or even in qt install from qt-project.org configure still says it does not found qt.
Thanks
All of this sounds like a problem with OSX configuration or packaging. As such, it is outside the expertise of the current core gnuplot development team. You might do better by posting your problem to a user forum rather than here, since other users may have encounterd and solved these same problems.
We (the gnuplot development team) expect operating-specific projects, for example MacPorts and Fink on the OSX side or Debian/RedHat/SuSE/etc on the linux side, to assemble appropriate matching support libraries and distribution packages for off-the-shelf installation. We do offer autotools-based configure and installation scripts so that you can build gnuplot directly from source, but in that case you will have to deal with the support libraries yourself. That is generally easy under linux, but as you have found it is much more difficult under OSX. That's why projects like Fink exist in the first place.
The Fink web site lists packages for the latest gnuplot release (4.6.6). If those don't work for you, I suggest you start by contacting the maintainers as listed on
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gnuplot-wxgtk-qtx11
If it turns out there is a bug attributable to the gnuplot source code, we very much appreciate bug reports with a test script that allows us to reproduce the problem. However if the problem is with the selection of libraries provided by Fink (or whoever else you get them from), there's not a whole lot we can do about that.
Last edit: Ethan Merritt 2014-10-03
Ticket moved from /p/gnuplot/bugs/1493/