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Third-party libraries

The core of PLplot as well as most of the drivers depend on third-party libraries. While for the PLplot library most dependencies are optional, while drivers are not included if dependencies are not fulfilled. In the following section information about this dependencies for the various operating systems are given.

PLplot core

• qhull

Drivers

• aquaterm - displays plots, available for Mac OS X
• freetype - enables use of ttf fonts for some drivers
• wxWidgets - displays plots, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
• cgm - outputs cgm files
• gd - the gd driver is able to output png, jpeg and gif files

Specifics for various platforms

• Linux

Mac OSX

• Mac OSX instructions

Windows

Instructions per Windows platform

• Configure PLplot for Visual CXX
• Configure PLplot for MinGW/CLI
• Configure PLplot for cygwin
• Configure PLplot for Borland CXX 5.5 (free command line tools)
• Configure PLplot for Borland Turbo C++ Explorer Edition (free IDE and compiler)
• Install 3rd party libraries

Miscellaneous Debris

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