Re: Compilation instructions for Windows and Mac OS X

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>
> For my book project, I would like to summarize
> installation and compilation instructions for
> gnuplot.
>
> I am struggling to get good descriptions together
> for Win and OS X, not least because I don't have
> access to either platform.
>
> While the description for Windows seems rather
> straightforward, I have not been able to find
> installation instructions for Mac OS X.

It depends on whether you want gnuplot to run on the first place, or
if you want to create a proper package out of it.

To make it run at all by building from sources, the instructions are
exactly the same as on linux (probably ./prepare, ./configure, make,
make install). The only additional thing that needs to be installed in
aquaterm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aquaterm/), but I forgot how
I installed it.

An alternative straightforward way is to install gnuplot using fink
(http://www.finkproject.org/). If one has fink installed, it's
possible to say either
    fink install gnuplot
or
    fink install gnuplot-nox
which will install gnuplot without support for xterm, but there is
aquaterm, which is in a way better (more native), but doesn't support
all the functionality - mouse is "dead" (you can resize, but that will
only scale, and you cannot zoom into the plot or retreive values from
points).

Still, I only use aquaterm as a terminal. For using xterm, one needs
to install X11 first, at least on Tiger (on the new Leopard, X11 is
already installed).

To make a package for distributing it (something approximately
equivalent to rpm on linux), one needs a more elaborate instructions,
but I doubt that people would really want that.

Mojca