Re: Compilation instructions for Windows and Mac OS X

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

Thanks to both of you. I am looking for installation
and compilation from source, for instance, if somebody
wants to build the development version.

Let me try and summarize:

1)
You need either AquaTerm or X11 installed.
(Gnuplot will compile without them, but the only
interactive terminal you will be able to use will be
the dumb terminal. File terminals will work.)

1a)
X11 requires the Apple developers kit as a
separate install, unless you are running Leopard
or newer, on which it is already preinstalled.

1b)
AquaTerm can be downloaded as either src
or precompiled binary from sourceforge.

2)
Once either one of these is installed and is detected
during the configure-step, the build process is the 
same as for all other Unix platforms.

3)
Finally, recent versions of OS X ship with a broken
version of the Gnu libreadline. These problems will
not be detected during the configure step, but will
lead to compile-time errors later. There are two
workarounds:
- use Gnuplot's own (minimalistic) libreadline:
	/configure --with-readline=builtin 
- or replace Apple's version of readline with the 
	version before building.


Is this correct?


By the way, it would be cool if precompiled
binaries for OS X would be available on the
gnuplot site.


On Tuesday 17 June 2008 15:05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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