RE: lua terminal problem on windows (was gnuplot 4.5 (cvs) windows and cygwin binaries are updated)

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

At first, I'll forward the message to gnu...@li....
It is better to discuss this issue open to the public rather than discuss personally.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- Franco Fritschij  wrote:

> 
>  Hello Tasuro Matsuoko,
> 
> I did some more tests. Your wgnuplot.exe directory is called 'gp45-winbin/gnuplot/bin'
> If I rename 'bin' to something else it works. So there is something strange in windows for
> finding the wgnuplot.exe directory if the directory ends with 'bin'. I see the same problem for
> the canvas terminal (looks for files in share/js) postscript terminals (postscript, epslatex
> looks for files in share/Postscript).
> 
> What is causing this?
> 
> Regards, Franco 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:tma...@ya...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:42 PM
> To: Franco Fritschij
> Cc: gnu...@li...
> Subject: lua terminal problem on windows (was gnuplot 4.5 (cvs) windows and cygwin binaries are
> updated)
> 
> Hello Franco Fritschij
> 
> cc. gnu...@li...
>  
> --- Franco Fritschij  wrote:
> 
> > Dear Tatsuro Matsuoka,
> > 
> > Good news that you managed to compile gnuplot including the lua terminal.
> > 
> > Gnuplot is default looking in the wrong directory for the lua/tikz files.
> > You can see that by using the following gnuplot terminal commands.
> > 
> > 'set term lua tikz' or equivalent 'set term tikz'
> > 
> > It looks in '......./gp45-winbin/gnuplot/share/lua' instead of 
> > '........../gp45-winbin/gnuplot/bin/share/lua' for the file 
> > gnuplot_tikz.lua It works if the environment variable GNUPLOT_LUA_DIR 
> > is set to '........./gp45-windir/gnuplot/bin/share/lua' as mentioned in the gnuplot
> documentation.
> > I think you have set some environment variable when compiling the 
> > code, this can probably be easy set to the 'gnuplot/bin/share' directory by default.
> > 
> > What do you have changed in the source code of lua.trm? The default 
> > location is pointing to X11_DRIVER_DIR which is not set if you compile it for windows.
> > 
> > Second remark:
> > 
> > You should put the 'gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty' file in the zip package it 
> > is in 'share/LaTeX/' in the source code.
> > The best place is in your 'bin/share' directory to add the LaTeX 
> > directory with the files from the source package.
> > 
> > The file 'gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty' is needed for latex to make the 
> > picture produced by the Lua/tikz terminal.
> > 
> > Best Regards, Franco Fritschij
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> in the makefile.mgw
> 
> # Where to install the PostScript prologue files, relatively to the executable # wgnuplot.exe
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR = share/PostScript
> 
> # Similarly for javascript files for the canvas terminal:
> GNUPLOT_JS_DIR = share/js
> 
> # Similarly for scripts used by the lua terminal GNUPLOT_LUA_DIR = share/lua
> 
> Then 'share/lua' relative to gnuplot executables. 
> So that /gp45-winbin/gnuplot/bin/share/lua is the place to put the file 'gnuplot-tikz.lua'.
> 
> This is the similar way to the PostScript prologue files.
> 
> However as you pointed out
> 
> gnuplot> set term tikz
> Terminal type set to 'tikz'
> error: cannot open
> D:\usr\Tatsu\mingwhome\gnuplotcvs\gp45-winbin\gnuplot\share/lua\gnuplot-tikz.lua:
> No such file or directory. Lua context closed.  
> 
> This might be a bug of newly imported code for windows into lua.trm.
> 
> For the second remark I am not a lua user.
> I cannot answer your remark.
> 
> I ask you to subscribe to gnu...@li... and discuss there.
> 
> Anyway I appreciate your kind suggestions.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro


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