Re: Progress on Mac installation cloning

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Thomas Mattison wrote:
>
> The goal is to make it easy for a non-computer-science student to 
> install gnuplot on a reasonably modern Mac. [...]

I package the program that I work on, gretl, for OS X and the gretl 
bundle includes gnuplot, so I thought it might be worth making a 
gnuplot bundle by stripping out all the gretl stuff and revising the 
metadata.

You can find the result at 
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-quartz.pkg

I don't suppose it will meet everyone's needs but here are the 
specs:

* It's an x86_64 build, and will run on OS X 10.6.6 and higher.

* The gnuplot code is 5.1 (cvs) as of a few weeks ago.

* It's self-contained. No dependency on XQuartz. The only libraries 
it requires from the OS are ones that are a standard part of the OS 
X kit from Snow Leopard to El Capitan.

* Interactive terminals: wxt and aquaterm. Both are built into the 
bundle; no need for a separate AquaTerm or wxWidgets installation. 
The included wx is the native quartz version, so no GTK.

* All pango/cairo terminals included: pngcairo, pdfcairo, epscairo. 
No Qt, no caca, no nonsense ;-)

* The installed size is about 22 MB, most of that made up by the 
glib/pango/cairo stack and the wxWidgets libraries.

* To install, double-click on the pkg file. It's signed, so 
GateKeeper shouldn't make a fuss. Installs into 
/Applications/Gnuplot.app.

* After installation, you can launch gnuplot via its icon in 
Applications; this opens an instance of Terminal with gnuplot 
running in it.

* If you want to run gnuplot from the command-line directly, the 
file to execute is

/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot-run.sh

This is a shell script which sets up the environment then calls the 
gnuplot binary. One could of course set up a shell alias.

Everything was built on Arch Linux using clang and friends.

Allin Cottrell