gnuplot on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

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

Although I still use Cygwin but I gradually move to WSL.

I could build gnuplot on WSL(Ubunutu 16.04)

Install WSL and ubunutu

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-wsl-and-mobaxterm-to-create-a-linux-dev-environment-on-windows

But I use VcXsrv as X-server instead.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/

Install gnuplot5
 sudo apt install gnuplot5

But version is 5.0.3(OLD!!)
However, the above sets several runtime libraries.

Un-comment  deb-src lines in the main file /etc/apt/sources.list
 sudo apt build-dep gnuplot5

To do the above allmost build and dev tools are installed.


Additional
 sudo apt install libcaca-dev
 sudo apt install libcerf-dev

Download 

 gnuplot-5.2.2.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnuplot/gnuplot/5.2.2/gnuplot-5.2.2.tar.gz

Extract

tar -xvzf gnuplot-5.2.2.tar.gz

cd gnuplot-5.2.2

./configure --with-qt=qt=5 --with-caca --with-wx-single-threaded
(--with-wx-single-threaded is needed on my PC)

Check the configure output carefully!!

make
make check
sudo make install

For dev version
install below
 sudo apt install automake
 sudo apt install autoconf

 sudo apt install git


git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main gnuplot
cd gnuplot
./prepare
mkdir .build
cd .build
../configure --prefix=/opt/gp530 --with-qt=qt5 --with-caca --with-wx-single-threaded
make
make check
sudo make install

Build on WSL is slow due to slow fork but faster than Cygwin.

I can use flawless qt-terminal on Windows PC by WSL!!



Tatsuro