Re: [MacPerl] PGPLOT

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 8:35 PM -0600 5/19/99, Joseph A. DiVerdi wrote:

} Greetings list members,
}
} I am writing to ask if anyone on the list has had any experience
} installing and using PGPLOT and to ask if there are any other data
} plotting packages for MacPerl out there.

A great deal of experience both installing and using it, but not under MacOS.

}
} My interest is in generating GIF images containing data plots with
} labeled axes and some annotation. I've begun to work with PGPLOT but
} believe that in order to use it I must compile the source with both F77
} and C compilers. Apparently, the PGPLOT package distributed in CPAN is
} limited to the Perl interface to the PGPLOT package.

You definitely need both a C and a Fortran compiler that will work
together.  PGPLOT itself is largely written in Fortran, but the PGPLOT
module needs the C "glue" from the libcpgplot library.

}
} I was initially attracted to PGPLOT because it provides a very useful set
} of primitives for plotting data (as contrasted to creating drawings)
} although they aren't really all that primative.

Yes it does.  But you're going to have to go to a significant amount of
trouble to get it working under MacPerl.

}
} YIP,
} Joseph
}
}
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