Re: Compilation instructions for Windows and Mac OS X

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

Thanks. That's very helpful.

Last question (because I am such a Mac OS X idiot):
do I need any non-standard (ie not typically pre-installed)
packages on a Mac to be able to compile anything, such
as the Apple developers kit, or does a regular Mac come
out of the box with the required compilers, linkers, libs?

Best,

		Ph.




On Wednesday 18 June 2008 10:36, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 09:56:05 am Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The aquaterm version on http://aquaterm.darwinports.com/
> is newer than the one on SourceForge.  I think (not sure) that you
> need the newer one if you are using Leopard.
>
> Development of aquaterm seems to have stagnated.
> Gnuplot actually supports aquaterm features (e.g. transparency)
> that never made it into the aquaterm version on SourceForge.
> I have not checked the Darwin port.
>
> Mac fans seem to like aqua, but in terms of gnuplot performance
> and features,  the x11 terminal works much better than aquaterm.
> If aquaterm development were to resume, that might change.
>
> > By the way, it would be cool if precompiled
> > binaries for OS X would be available on the
> > gnuplot site.
>
> I echo Mojca's concern:  I haven't had much luck with 3rd party
> pre-compiled OSX apps.  They tend to require incompatible versions
> of various font and graphics libraries.  It's probably possible to tweak
> system configurations to work around this, but at least from my
> perspective it's easier to build from source and link against whatever
> version of the libraries you already have installed.  Nevertheless,
> there are pre-compiled gnuplot binaries for both Darwin and Fink if
> you want to go that route.  Maybe also in the Octave package?
>
> 	Ethan
>
> > 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
> >
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