Re: [Plplot-general] instructions for compiling and linking programs that use PlPlot

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:36 PM, ppi...@mt... wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a plplot newbuy, have just installed it to my Kubuntu machine  
> from
> the  repository. I could not find in the documentation a single  
> example of
> how to compile and link a program that uses plplot. My attempts to  
> compile
> some test codes by guessing right library names and paths with the  
> aid of
> pkg-config did not lead to any success.
>
> Could someone provide me with compiling and linking examples that are
> known work on Linux with gcc/g++/g77/gfortran?

For simple programs that only depend on PLplot, this works for me on  
linux:
gcc test1.c -o test1 -lplplotd

-Hazen