Thanks; I need to completely read the GNU-APL DOC, sorry about that
You are right the problem is with the libxcb.
⎕plot 1 2 3 4 5
SYNTAX ERROR+
⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5
^
)MORE
⎕PLOT is not available because either no libxcb library was found on this
system when GNU APL was compiled, or because it was disabled in ./configure.
Exist a tutorials for building gnu-apl in OSX
Thanks for your time
Toni
> El 26 nov 2019, a las 17:27, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
> <[email protected]> escribió:
>
> Hi Toni,
>
> the + character after SYNTAX ERROR (or any other APL error) indicates that
> there
> is more information available regarding that error. The additional information
> can be displayed with command )MORE.
>
> I suspect that in this particular case libraries needed for plotting
> (essentially libX11.so,
> libxcb.so, and libX11-xcb.so) were missing on the platform where GNU APL was
> compiled
> (i.e. your own machine if you compiled from source or the build machine of a
> package if
> you installed a binary package).
>
> For ⎕PLOT to work, you may need to compile the interpreter from source with
> the required
> X libraries installed beforehand.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jürgen Sauermann
>
>
> On 11/26/19 2:27 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:
>> Thanks for this awesome software. I have installed gnu plot 1.8 from brew
>> package. It works well, and good integration with emacs. So it is a good
>> environment for learning APL.
>>
>> The only think is that when I try to plot I always get the following error:
>>
>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
>> SYNTAX ERROR+
>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
>> ^
>>
>> I do not see anywhere, if is needed to load a workspace, or the needed for
>> some environment configuration during installation. So really I do not know
>> how to proceed.
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>>
>> Toni
>>
>
