macOS gnuplot installer package?

[Mike90293]

I've been a happy user of gnuplot on windows pc but would like to use it natively under leopard. I am NOT a unix guru and have wasted many hours trying to build it from source. Have pre-installed aquaterm and X11 but 'make' step (after 'configure') yields many compile errors before quitting.

Since I can run it under windows VM --- don't want to waste too much more time troubleshooting.

Does anyone know of a current gnuplot (>=4.2) pre-built package for leopard?
MAC download link via gnuplot.info/download is broken.

Thanks

 

[AlmostThere]

No, but compiling was straight-forward (I use 4.3 development version daily).
The only complication I recall was running configure with --with-readline=builtin

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1839048&group_id=2055&atid=102055

IIRC there are binary packages in macports and fink

 

[Mike90293]

gnuplot install ok

Thank you AllMostThere. The 'with-readline=builtin' option is what I needed also + sudu for the make install step.

All works fine except I see there is no pdf terminal type (4.2.5). Does 4.3 add it back? Otherwise, what terminal type do you suggest for batch output of graphs? I know aquaterm can save to pdf but that is a 1 at a time selection.

Thanks again,
Mike

 

[AlmostThere]

The PDF terminal depends on pdflib rather than the OS X pdf libraries, I assume for cross platform compatibility. It can be downloaded from source (http://www.pdflib.com/download/free-software/pdflib-lite/) and rebuild gnuplot.

I agree that the "default" build could be better, especially as OS X provides support for many of the terminals e.g. PNG, PDF, but has not been updated to take advantage of these.

For PDF output, say for presentation or publication, I go via aquaterm, saving something specific. I generally use gnuplot in interactive mode / save a script for a specific data set, rather than using it for batch processing large numbers of files.

For batch output on OS X, I am reasonably happy with SVG (although I don't know if this is in 4.2.x, when I was on Linux I used png). Safari can open these, but I also generate a results web page through a shell script, giving me a grid of smaller images each linking to the full size version. A little bit of work, but makes reviewing lots of results much easier.

Building 4.3 is easy enough, following http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/development/index.html (use the bash syntax).

 

[MrFusion]

I've been a happy user of gnuplot on windows pc but would like to use it natively under leopard. I am NOT a unix guru and have wasted many hours trying to build it from source. Have pre-installed aquaterm and X11 but 'make' step (after 'configure') yields many compile errors before quitting.

Since I can run it under windows VM --- don't want to waste too much more time troubleshooting.

Does anyone know of a current gnuplot (>=4.2) pre-built package for leopard?
MAC download link via gnuplot.info/download is broken.

Thanks

Install finkcommander. It's a GUI for installing unix tools. You select the program from a list and click install from binaries or from source.
gnuplot is listed.

 

[joe.pelayo]

No, but compiling was straight-forward (I use 4.3 development version daily).
The only complication I recall was running configure with --with-readline=builtin

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1839048&group_id=2055&atid=102055

IIRC there are binary packages in macports and fink

This also works for gnuplot 4.4

Thanks,
Joe.

 

[celton]

gnoplot installation error

Hi,
I'm desperatly trying to install gnuplot on my mac but keep getting this error messages after "make", whatever the gnuplot version:

breaders.c:303:16: error: gd.h: No such file or directory
breaders.c:304: error: syntax error before 'im'
breaders.c:304: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
breaders.c:304: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
breaders.c: In function 'gd_filetype_function':
breaders.c:315: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
breaders.c:334: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:335: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
make[3]: *** [breaders.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I've also tested the './configure --with-readline=builtin' but that didn't change anything...
Can someone tell me what's going on?
Thanks!

 

[Cromulent]

Hi,
I'm desperatly trying to install gnuplot on my mac but keep getting this error messages after "make", whatever the gnuplot version:

breaders.c:303:16: error: gd.h: No such file or directory
breaders.c:304: error: syntax error before 'im'
breaders.c:304: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
breaders.c:304: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
breaders.c: In function 'gd_filetype_function':
breaders.c:315: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
breaders.c:334: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:335: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
breaders.c:339: error: invalid type argument of '->'
make[3]: *** [breaders.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I've also tested the './configure --with-readline=builtin' but that didn't change anything...
Can someone tell me what's going on?
Thanks!

Hmm works fine for me with Xcode 3.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 when compiling GNUplot 4.2.6.

What versions of the above do you have?