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This is the (un-)official Wiki for PLplot. It should provide additional information to complement the PLplot documentation.

Building PLplot

Our traditional Autotools Build System (ABS) may be used to configure the PLplot build on Unix platforms. Alternatively, our new CMake Build System (CBS) may be used to configure the PLplot build on both Unix and Windows platforms.

Building PLplot with our traditional ABS

Building PLplot with our new CBS

Download the appropriate package of CMake for your system (Website) - at least version 2.4.3 - and unpack it.

Unix

Here is a typical way to use Cmake on Unix systems.

mkdir build_dir

cd build_dir

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/my/prefix \

-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON ../plplot_cmake >& cmake.out

Note an empty build directory called build_dir is used to insure a clean start, and ../plplot_cmake is a freshly checked out source tree (which remains clean because you never actually create any files in that directory tree). To start fresh, simply execute "cd build_dir; rm -rf *". Of course, this is an extremely dangerous command (since it removes everything in the current directory and all subdirectories), but you should be okay so long as you cd to the correct directory before executing the "rm" command.

(Optional) set environment variables to help CMake find system components that are installed in non-standard locations

Here is one particular example (which must be executed before the above cmake command).

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/software/libLASi/install/lib/pkgconfig export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/software/autotools/install/lib:/home/software/cgmlib/cd1.3 export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/software/autotools/install/include:/home/software/cgmlib/cd1.3

In these special cases, PKG_CONFIG_PATH helps CMake to use the pkg-config command for a non-standard libLASi install location; CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH helps CMake to find libltdl and libcd in non-standard install locations; and CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH helps CMake to find the headers for libltdl and libcd in non-standard install locations.

(Optional) set environment variables to specify the compilers and compiler flags

Here is one particular example (which must be executed before the above cmake command).

export CC="gcc -O2"

export CXX="g++ -O2"

export FC="g77 -O2"

Note a better option is to set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to one of Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo, or MinSizeRel. If you don't set this variable and don't set the environment variables above, then by default no compiler options (i.e., no optimization and no debugging symbols) are used for gcc-related compilers for our CBS which makes for very fast builds, but slow execution.

Specifics for various Unix platforms

Windows

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