[Gnuplot-info] Re: Gnuplot 4.0 for Win32 with Cygwin and X-server

[Ben K. <be...@bl...>]

Thanks.
I installed "gd" from the Libs category and everything works.
There was nothing in the README.Windows file to suggest this - see below.

BTW: To use this version of Gnuplot with Octave, I only had to add the line
gnuplot_binary = 'gnuplot'
to /usr/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
I didn't need 'pipe-gnuplot' or 'pgnuplot' as described in
http://octave.sourceforge.net/Octave_Windows.htm#Step6

Ben.

README.Windows:
This is  gnuplot version 4.0  --  binary distribution for MS-Windows 32bit
      with Cygwin and X-server
==========================================================================

Ignore this package if you don't know what X11, X-server and Cygwin means.

In short, it contains unixish-like gnuplot executable for command line and
with X11 terminal -- that's what you search for if you need multiple
interactive graph windows.
For example, "set term x11" allows you to use the figure(n); commands in
Octave (www.octave.org) even under Windows.

This distribution was obtained by the unixish way of compilation under
Cygwin:
 bash
 ./configure
 make
 make install


Binaries included:
------------------

* gnuplot.exe: The gnuplot executable for Windows with x11 terminal.


Installation
------------

* Unzip this package into Cygwin directory, e.g. C:\cygwin.
  Then, you should find gnuplot.exe in Cygwin's /usr/local/bin directory,
  and similarly for other files.

* See 'help start', 'help environment' etc. for setting up your environment,
  if not already done for the usual gnuplot for Windows.

* No additional documentation is included. Please use the usual gnuplot 4.0
  Windows binary distribution package which contains complete set of
  README's, INSTALL's, demo/, docs/, etc.


Running
-------

* Run X-server, for example
    - Cygwin-X11 (free, www.cygwin.com/xfree/) -- command "startxwin.bat"
    - Small stripped version of the above -- search web for file XFry86.zip
    - Any other free X-server
    - Any shareware or commercial, like eXceed, X-Win32, X-ThinPro,
Astec-X,...

* Set DISPLAY environmental variable to your machine

* Run gnuplot.exe and enjoy "set term x11" with its multiple graph windows


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The gnuplot team, April 16, 2004


"Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <br...@ph...> wrote in message
news:428...@ph......
> Ben Kinsella wrote:
> > I downloaded gp400win32x11.zip from ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot
> >
> > I un-zipped into C:\cygwin, but when I run gnuplot I get the following
> > error:
> > "The dynamic link library cyggd-2.dll could not be found in the
specified
> > path".
> >
> > "cyggd-2.dll" isn't on my hard-drive.
>
> Then you'll have to install some package off your preferred Cygwin
> repository to get it.  Probably something called "gd runtime libraries".
>
> The README file(s) accompanying the .zip are supposed to tell you about
> such issues.  Do they?
>
>
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