Third-party libraries

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
• cairo - displays plots and save to different file formats, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
• cgm - outputs cgm files
• libgd - the gd driver is able to output png, jpeg and gif files