Re: gnuplot for macOS 11 + M1

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:48:34 PDT Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 00:42, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >
> > Just wondering: has anyone produced a Mac package of gnuplot
> > targetting OS 11 ("Big Sur") with M1 processor?
> 
> There is a package inside package managers (for example in MacPorts, I
> guess it's present in others as well), but that probably doesn't
> count?
> (There might be some issues with wx, but I need to check.)
> 
> I tried to create a nice standalone .app years ago, but the fact that
> this requires the terminal to start makes it somewhat annoying for
> bundling.
> (I would find it much easier to bundle it if there was some wx or
> qt-based simplistic terminal available as well.)

Not sure I understand.

You mean run you would like to run gnuplot from, e.g., qterminal
instead of xterm or whatever terminal emulator you have now?
I think it might even be possible to have "set term qt widget <id>"
direct the plot output to a tab of qterminal, but I don't have any
idea how to determine what the widget id would be.

If svg output is acceptable, you can definitely do this using
domterm and telling gnuplot "set term domterm".  For that matter
there's a qt version of domterm and I have used it to run gnuplot
with output back to the window it is running in.
So yeah, it's possible.

	Ethan

> I know there are workarounds, but I never found the existing bundle
> particularly friendly to use, so I keep using the packager where it's
> also a lot easier to keep the software up to date.
> 
> Mojca
> 
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