difx:plplot

Table of Contents

PLPlot
- - Converting PGPLOT to PLPLOT
- Installation
  - Debian
  - OSX
  - Compiling

PLPlot

The official plplot documentation is at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.9/

Converting PGPLOT to PLPLOT

#include <cpgplot.h>	#include <plplot/plplot.h>;
cpgbeg(0,“/xs”,1,3)	plstart(“xwin”, 1,3)
cpgend()	plend();
cpgask(0);	plspause(0);
cpgbbuf();	None?
cpgenv(0,nchan,min,max,0,0);	plenv(0,nchan,min,max,0,0);
cpgpage();	pladv();
cpgvstd();	plvsta();
cpgswin(X1, X2, Y1, Y2);	plwind(xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax);
cpgbox(“BCNST”, 0.0, 0, “BCNSTL”, 0.0, 0);	plbox(“bcnst”, 0.0, 0, “bcnstl”, 0.0, 0);
ppglab(“Channel”, “Amplitude”, “”);	pllab(“Channel”, “Amplitude”, “”);
cpgeras();	plclear();
cpgpanl(y, y);	pladv(N);
cpgsci(1);	plcol0(15);
cpgscr(0,1,1,1);	plscmap0 (r , g , b , ncol0 );
cpgsch(1);	plschr(0,0.8);
cpgline(n, xvals, yvals);	plline(n, xvals, yvals);
cppgpt(nchan, xval, phase[i], 17);	plsym(nchan, xval, phase[i], 17);
cpgmtxt(“T”, -1.5, 0.02, 0, sourcename);	plmtex(“t”, -1.5, 0.02, 0, sourcename);

Installation

Debian

For Debian Squeeze I installed

 > apt-get install libplplot-dev libplplot9 plplot9-driver-cairo plplot9-driver-xwin

OSX

 brew install plplot

Old notes

You need to have cmake installed - I get cmake from brew - http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Download the source code from sourceforge

svn co https://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/plplot/trunk plplot

To install I had to disable lots of stuff - your mileage may vary…. In the plplot directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DENABLE_python=OFF -DENABLE_wxwidgets=OFF -DENABLE_tcl=OFF -DENABLE_tk=OFF -DPLD_wxwidgets=OFF
make
sudo make install

Disabling python was just because it could not locate Python.h - this may be a problem on my Mac

More recently to compile I had to run cmakes as

cmake .. -DENABLE_ada=OFF

I also had to edit the cmake setup as per http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/772223c638ecf5dc740c9f3dd7a6883c6d2c83d2/

Compiling

plplot supports package config. A simple usage is

  gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs plplotd` prog.c -o prog

difx/plplot.txt · Last modified: 2022/06/03 15:48 by chrisphillips