gnuplot-beta

Mac OS X and wxt

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

I have been asked about the status of 
using the wxt terminal on Mac OS X.

Not being a Mac OS X user, I don't really
have this information. 

I looked through the mailing list archives,
but am not really clear what the current
situation and the future plans are at this time.
Could someone briefly summarize the current
state of the wxt terminal on OS X for me?

Best,

		Ph.

Re: Mac OS X and wxt

[Timothée L. <tim...@lp...>]

Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> I have been asked about the status of 
> using the wxt terminal on Mac OS X.
>
> Not being a Mac OS X user, I don't really
> have this information. 
>
> I looked through the mailing list archives,
> but am not really clear what the current
> situation and the future plans are at this time.
> Could someone briefly summarize the current
> state of the wxt terminal on OS X for me?
>
> Best,
>
> 		Ph.

Hi,

Both in gnuplot 4.2 and in the current CVS, wxt does not work on Mac OS X.

There is a patch on SourceForge that is supposed to make it work on Mac 
OS X : 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=302055&aid=1950392&group_id=2055
However, this is a heavy work, and still in progress. It is supposed to 
build and work on Mac OS X, but it is most likely to be slowish, and I 
have not tried it yet.

I'd like to finish it to move further, but I do not spend as much time 
developing for gnuplot as I used to...

Best regards,

Timothée Lecomte

Re: Mac OS X and wxt

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

Thanks for your reply. That's too bad... ;-(

Does the wxt terminal currently work for
Windows? Or is the wxt really only available
for Unix right now (despite its potential to 
be a cross-platform eventually)?

Best,

		Ph.



On Sunday 31 August 2008 10:53, you wrote:
> Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > I have been asked about the status of
> > using the wxt terminal on Mac OS X.
> >
> > Not being a Mac OS X user, I don't really
> > have this information.
> >
> > I looked through the mailing list archives,
> > but am not really clear what the current
> > situation and the future plans are at this time.
> > Could someone briefly summarize the current
> > state of the wxt terminal on OS X for me?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > 		Ph.
>
> Hi,
>
> Both in gnuplot 4.2 and in the current CVS, wxt does not work on Mac OS X.
>
> There is a patch on SourceForge that is supposed to make it work on Mac
> OS X :
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=302055&aid=1950392&group_
>id=2055 However, this is a heavy work, and still in progress. It is supposed
> to build and work on Mac OS X, but it is most likely to be slowish, and I
> have not tried it yet.
>
> I'd like to finish it to move further, but I do not spend as much time
> developing for gnuplot as I used to...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Timothée Lecomte

Re: Mac OS X and wxt

[Timothée L. <tim...@lp...>]

Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. That's too bad... ;-(
>
> Does the wxt terminal currently work for
> Windows? Or is the wxt really only available
> for Unix right now (despite its potential to 
> be a cross-platform eventually)?
>
> Best,
>
> 		Ph.
>
>   
Yes, wxt does work for Windows.
"Official" windows binaries that are distributed on our SourceForge page 
are not built with it though. With those, you have to use the default 
"win" terminal.
To use wxt on Windows, you can either build gnuplot by yourself with 
MinGW or MSVC (MSVC may need additional gnuplot patches, I have not 
tested it myself; MinGW should work with the untouched code base). 
Additionally, Michael Goffioul has built a Windows package for Octave, 
that also contains gnuplot with wxt ! It is available there : 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078 
. It is probably the easiest way to use wxt on Windows.

Best regards,

Timothée

wxt by MingW - Re: Mac OS X and wxt

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Yes, wxt does work for Windows. "Official" windows binaries that are 
> distributed on our SourceForge page are not built with it though. With 
> those, you have to use the default "win" terminal. To use wxt on Windows, 
> you can either build gnuplot by yourself with MinGW or MSVC (MinGW should 
> work with the untouched code base).
> Additionally, Michael Goffioul has built a Windows package for Octave, 
> that also contains gnuplot with wxt !

I tried to compile gnuplot with wxt on Windows by MingW, but it failed. How 
can I do it? I did the following:

I have downloaded the files below from 
	http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
and unzipped them into the MingW32 directory:

	cairo-dev-1.6.4-2.zip
	cairo-1.6.4-2.zip
	glib-dev_2.18.0-1_win32.zip
	glib_2.18.0-1_win32.zip
	pango-dev-1.20.5.zip
	pango-1.20.5.zip

>From the wx homepage I've got and unzipped into D:/wxMSW-2.8.8
	wxMSW-2.8.8.zip
These are source code. Unfortunately I couldn't compile it, the make always 
failed in some part of its makefile.gcc. I couldn't repair it. Any idea what 
to do?


Anyway, I proceeded further. In gnuplot's makefile.mgw, I had to change:
ifdef WXT
        CFLAGS += -DWXWIDGETS -ID:/wxMSW-2.8.8/include
        CFLAGS += -ID:/Apps/MingW32/MingW344/include/cairo
        CFLAGS += -ID:/Apps/MingW32/MingW344/include/glib-2.0
        WX_OBJS = wxt_gui.o gp_cairo.o
endif

because there is nothing like "wx-config" and "pkg-config" on my PATH as 
shell'ed from makefile.mgw.

In gnuplot/src/wxterminal/wx_gui.cpp, I had to uncomment this code:
#ifdef __WXMSW__
                /* the following is done in wxEntry() with wxMSW only */
                wxSetInstance(GetModuleHandle(NULL));
                wxApp::m_nCmdShow = SW_SHOW;
#endif
because wxSetInstance() was not known.

Then the compilation
    make -f makefile.mgw
worked.

But linking does not work, it complains about many undefined references. It 
seems wgnuplot.exe wants to be linked against the wx library. But it was not 
available as I couldn't compile it. I though the library may not be needed 
and some dll's could be used instead -- Michael's wgnuplot has dependencies 
to many dll's.

Could somebody describe a procedure how to compile wxt under MingW? How to 
have it static or with dll's?

Thanks.

---
PM

Re: wxt by MingW - Re: Mac OS X and wxt

[Timothée L. <tim...@lp...>]

Petr Mikulik a écrit :
>> Yes, wxt does work for Windows. "Official" windows binaries that are 
>> distributed on our SourceForge page are not built with it though. With 
>> those, you have to use the default "win" terminal. To use wxt on Windows, 
>> you can either build gnuplot by yourself with MinGW or MSVC (MinGW should 
>> work with the untouched code base).
>> Additionally, Michael Goffioul has built a Windows package for Octave, 
>> that also contains gnuplot with wxt !
>>     
>
> I tried to compile gnuplot with wxt on Windows by MingW, but it failed. How 
> can I do it? I did the following:
>
> I have downloaded the files below from 
> 	http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
> and unzipped them into the MingW32 directory:
>
> 	cairo-dev-1.6.4-2.zip
> 	cairo-1.6.4-2.zip
> 	glib-dev_2.18.0-1_win32.zip
> 	glib_2.18.0-1_win32.zip
> 	pango-dev-1.20.5.zip
> 	pango-1.20.5.zip
>
> >From the wx homepage I've got and unzipped into D:/wxMSW-2.8.8
> 	wxMSW-2.8.8.zip
> These are source code. Unfortunately I couldn't compile it, the make always 
> failed in some part of its makefile.gcc. I couldn't repair it. Any idea what 
> to do?
>
>   
Hi Petr,

I think the way that has more chances to succeed to build wxMSW is to 
use the autotools instead of the makefile. You'll need autoconf, 
automake, pkgconfig (as you mention below), of course cairo, glib and 
pango (available as win32 binaries and headers on ftp.gtk.org), and 
possibily a couple of other tools/libraries (I remember having to 
install zlib).

> Anyway, I proceeded further. In gnuplot's makefile.mgw, I had to change:
> ifdef WXT
>         CFLAGS += -DWXWIDGETS -ID:/wxMSW-2.8.8/include
>         CFLAGS += -ID:/Apps/MingW32/MingW344/include/cairo
>         CFLAGS += -ID:/Apps/MingW32/MingW344/include/glib-2.0
>         WX_OBJS = wxt_gui.o gp_cairo.o
> endif
>
> because there is nothing like "wx-config" and "pkg-config" on my PATH as 
> shell'ed from makefile.mgw.
>
>   
Once you have built wxMSW, you'll get wx-config. You should install 
pkg-config too to get cairo and pango flags.

> In gnuplot/src/wxterminal/wx_gui.cpp, I had to uncomment this code:
> #ifdef __WXMSW__
>                 /* the following is done in wxEntry() with wxMSW only */
>                 wxSetInstance(GetModuleHandle(NULL));
>                 wxApp::m_nCmdShow = SW_SHOW;
> #endif
> because wxSetInstance() was not known.
>   
Did you mean "comment" or "uncomment" ?
> Then the compilation
>     make -f makefile.mgw
> worked.
>
> But linking does not work, it complains about many undefined references. It 
> seems wgnuplot.exe wants to be linked against the wx library.
Of course !

> But it was not 
> available as I couldn't compile it. I though the library may not be needed 
> and some dll's could be used instead -- Michael's wgnuplot has dependencies 
> to many dll's.
>   
You not only need dlls but also .lib files that correspond to symbol 
lists or something like that.

> Could somebody describe a procedure how to compile wxt under MingW? How to 
> have it static or with dll's?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> PM
>   

I'll try, if I find some time...

Timothée Lecomte