-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alan, > > The rest of this post is directed to everybody on this list with access to > Mac OS X. I strongly urge you to install both the pango/cairo development > libraries and the Qt development libraries and do regular testing with the > test_noninteractive (or ctest) and test_interactive targets for the > svn/trunk version of PLplot. The combination of the cairo and qt device > drivers produces excellent results for a large variety of noninteractive > plot file formats and also for interactive plots so Mac OS X users are > beginning to use those device drivers more and more. This recommended > on-going testing effort is just to make sure that the majority of errors for > our svn/trunk version and cairo and qt devices get discovered immediately on > Mac OS X rather than much later by our Mac OS X users after we make a > release.
I wasted numerous hours compiling cairo/pango on Mac OS X. I don't like fink or macports, since there is always a package I want or depend on, which doesn't compile. I actually succeeded just to find out, that there is a much easier way to get these libraries. 1) Download GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg package from http://r.research.att.com/ and install it 2) Add to your .profile file in the home directory export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin:$PATH and you are done. This GTK framework is not official, since the gtk-osx project doesn't provide one (you need to build one yourself). The above is from the R for OS X development page, but seems to work fine. ctest --verbose seems to work fine for the cairo drivers, so eventually this is a very easy way (and fast) to get the cairo drivers running on mac os x. I updated the wiki accordingly: http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Cairo/pango > Leo mentioned in an earlier plplot-general thread that it was too time > consuming to compile Qt on Mac OS X. However, I don't believe compilation > is required in this case. According to http://qt.nokia.com/downloads, there > is an SDK version available for Mac OS X. When I tried the corresponding > Linux 64-bit SDK, it was a binary with no need to build so I presume that is > also true of the Mac OS X SDK. If Leo or anybody else here will confirm > that, I will go back and respond to that earlier thread on plplot-general so > our Mac OS X users don't get unnecessarily intimidated about installing Qt. That's true, no compiling needed, just install the SDK. The instructions are in the wiki: http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Qt#Instructions_for_Mac_OS_X > > You do need lots of disk space for the SDK downloads and the corresponding > installed libraries and uncompressed data associated with those libraries. > But that is typically less disk space than the 2GB used to store the plots > that are produced with "make test_noninteractive". Hopefully none of those > lurking on this list are squeezed for disk space in any case since you can > buy 500GB to 1000GB of additional disk space now for ridiculously small > cost. Regards, Werner > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel - -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Angewandte Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10/134 A-1040 Wien Austria DVR-Nr: 0005886 email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at (GPG: EDCAF4A79) web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLfnAmAAoJEG1QQcXtyvSnYDgH/ApJNsP5m5NoGzPz9xuMZjTr zFMryPnypNrxhzzl1y5jo5XIQRhlUyzLuGwOlBAdQC5fVl8wTl9D4MvSj6i+TKfd zV6EqxD3JHdtO/dC6u1GseClr0kVsW/k7GabByR6eYFFTgnt+S0rTvlLHMluU4PA 1V3mkrF+zeH945VY2E8mZWVqoxKuRJqRYTyY+neHP1VBYgrLhF2qdhJWAbLANfWt GCBNKx3qiAFwCrI3t6141vL8IpiPosTezcTFjOdU53mFxKmriRPcc1a9/a2c5bgc 0jZVpnZekLbw8wHx7yfYCXJTRoVF/Kp2c5WJ9fnud2JJ3v/I4vtzLLOQP+ya+5o= =i7Rw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
