Linux
Compiling plplot on GNU-Linux
Prerequisites
List of Debian/Ubuntu packages provides a list about all packages needed to configure and compile PLplot successfully. Even for other Linux distributions you might derive the correct name of the package needed.
Quick compilation
This very quick way should be relevant for most local usages.
A very simple way does exist to compile plplot-5.9.0 on linux with cmake 2.6.0 (Assuiming we are in path /home/visiteur/GDL/):
- tar -zxf plplot-5.9.0.tar.gz
- cd plplot-5.9.0
- mkdir Compilation
- cd Compilation/
- cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/visiteur/GDL/plplot-5.9.0/Compilation/ ..
- make
- make install
First step (1) is to extract the archive. This will create a directory (plplot-5.9.0/) containing a lot of files and sub-directories ... Please in this directory (step 2), then create a new directory (step 3) where you will put the compilation products. Please go inside this subdirectory (step 4). Let assuming you are working in full directory expansion: /home/visiteur/GDL/plplot-5.9.0/Compilation/ In command 5, you will said to cmake to prepare the makefile for plplot (root of plplot is in ..) with a target in Compilation/ After doing that, you just need to call make (step 6) then make install (step 7) which will do the copy of compilation product inside the /home/visiteur/GDL/plplot-5.9.0/Compilation/ subdirectory.
Other options
Follow the generic Unix commands in the page that links to this page, and normally you should be fine on Linux
The Python and Java interfaces to PLplot are generated with SWIG so if you want those interfaces you must install SWIG. If SWIG is installed and cmake cannot find it, then you must help cmake out by specifying the directory where swig.swg (an important SWIG file) is located using the CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable. For example, one of our users reported success with finding SWIG and generating our Python and Java interfaces for Arch Linux by specifying
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/share/swig/1.3.27
Normally, though, such extraordinary measures are not required on Linux.
