Re: [Plplot-general] plplot on mac osx with macports +no_x11

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-12-10 11:24-0500 Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> Greetings -- I've built the whole gnome thing in macports with
> +no_x11, using gtk-osx.  Which configuration options should be given
> to plplot so that it doesn't use X11 at all, but only the quartz?
> Apparently the portfile for plplot in the current macports doesn't
> include the variant +no_x11, and I'd like to concoct one myself after
> I thoroughly understand what it needs to hear.

Our CMake-based build system looks for X, but if it is not present the build
system sets certain CMake variables which are then used to automatically
exclude the X-dependent components such as Tk language support and the
xwin and tk device drivers.

So I suspect you don't have to do anything at all.  If you do try a PLplot
build in an environment without X, and our build system logic tries to build
an X-dependent component of PLplot in error, please let us know so we can
fix that build-system bug.

Note you also have complete hands-on control of what components of PLplot
are built, if you don't like these build decisions to be made automatically.
For example, if you want to specifically disable the tk language then
specify -DENABLE_tk=OFF as a cmake option.  (That should automatically
disable the tk device as well.) If you want to specifically disable the xwin
device, then specify -DPLD_xwin=OFF as a cmake option.

Hope this response to your question helps, and good luck with your use of
PLplot!

Alan
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