Re: [Plplot-general] My very first PLplot question: How do you actually compile a FORT RAN program?

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

On 2004-07-08 13:22-0400 ger...@si... wrote:

>
> Hi, everybody:
>
> I have downloaded PLplot and succesfully installed it (sun4u sparc SunOS
> 5.8) .  I have run the fortran examples and they all work. I have read the
> manual and familiarized my self with most commands.
>
> Now, how in the world do I actually compile my own fortran program that uses
> plplot commands?  Nowhere in the user's manual is there a compilation
> example and the make files that compile the examples is HUGE and has a lot
> of stuff that I don't understand.
>
> Does anyone have step-by-step instructions or a short, specific make file
> for a single program?
>
> The directory where I installed PLplot from is : /usw/ude/plplot-5.3.1
>
> The directory where I installed PLplot into is : /usw/ude/plplot

First, put your installed tree bin first on your path, copy the installed
examples to /tmp, build the executables, then run them.  That is do the
following:

export PATH='/usw/ude/plplot/bin:'$PATH
cd /tmp
cp -a /usw/ude/plplot/share/plplot5.3.1/examples /tmp
cd /tmp/examples
make
./plplot-test.sh

That last command should generate postscript results for a large number of
examples if everything is working well on your system.

Second, you will see in the results of the above make command (which is
special to the install tree examples), the exact command required
to build the installed fortran examples.  It should be straightforward to
generalize from that to your own fortran applications.

HTH.

Alan

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