Starting a new thread. Background -- wanted to create surface plots a la R (http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=27) but with PDL.
Was unable to install PDL::Graphics::TriD and PDL::Graphics::PLplot P::G::T kept on choking up on various issues, and eventually it turns out that it is now choking up on OpenGL even though OpenGL itself comes prebuilt and standard on Mac OS X, per opengl.org Tried to install PLplot separately. Failed miserably until Hazen Babcock suggested that I try installing via cmake but with ENABLE_pdl OFF. Sometimes what is obvious to someone is completely opaque to someone else. So, I tried cmake with -DENABLE_PDL=OFF and -DENABLE_PDL=0 but no cigar until I tried it with -DENABLE_pdl=OFF (note lower case 'pdl'). This time plplot installation worked and everything got installed to /usr/local/plplot So, this time in perldl.conf I turned off WITH_3D and turned on PLPLOT. However, I still get the following ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [../../blib/arch/auto/PDL/Graphics/PLplot/PLplot.bundle] Error 1 make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2 make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 punk...@lucknow ~/Projects/PDL-2.4.4_08$ This has been most frustrating. I understand that open source software is a labor of love, and because of the variety of configurations that it works on, it will always need massaging. I also view PDL has a tool of great power, but if I, with more than rudimentary knowledge of computers, is unable to get PDL even started on my computer, it shows we have a long way to go. I know I can't complain about this if I don't do something about this. My hope is that with my ministrations and travails, we can come up with simple and effective complete installs of PDL just as the R folks have done for their open source package. Soon as I get everything going successfully, I will definitely write up a simple, easy to understand instructions document. The current documentation of plplot, opengl and even PDL is less than easy. Thanks to all those who responded. I still have miles to go. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Ft Myer, VA, United States _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
