gnuplot & AquaTerm in Snow Leopard 10.6.1

By TeGa at Wed, Sep 16 2009 10:04am |

Can't get gnuplot to have aquaterm support..

I've installed the developer tools, downloaded the AquaTerm dmg and installed it, and compiled the gnuplot source with

./configure --with-readline=bsd
make
sudo make install

./configure reports:

...
aqua terminal (MacOS X): yes
...

however..

gnuplot> set term aqua
^
unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list

and 'aqua' is not in the terminal listed by 'set term'

the libs are there allright, in 'usr/local/lib':

libaquaterm.1.0.1.dylib -> /Library/Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/Versions/A/AquaTerm
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 58 16 Σεπ 15:40 libaquaterm.dylib -> /Library/Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/Versions/A/AquaTerm

Any ideas?

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Fri, 2009-09-18 01:36 — axluca

To compile gnuplot in snow

To compile gnuplot in snow leopard try to use the following command:

./configure --with-readline=bsd --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib

and then use make and sudo make install as before
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Fri, 2009-09-18 01:59 — TeGa

Thank you, but none of the

Thank you, but none of the flags have anything to do with aquaterm; one sets the readline support and the other just enables the X11 term. In fact X11 seems to be enabled even if you leave out the

--x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib

I found the problem though: In config.log I missed this:

configure:6851: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -laquaterm -lobjc >&5
ld: warning: in /usr/local/lib/libaquaterm.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file
Undefined symbols:
"_aqtInit", referenced from:
_main in ccP53E9X.o
ld: symbol(s) not found

LibAquaterm has no 64bit support. For a programme that was last updated in 2006, that is not surprising.

Thu, 2009-09-24 03:44 — epma

Workaround

Is there a need for 64bit support for Aquaterm?

I hope that somebody from the gnuplot project will fix this, but by then I suggest to use a workaround:
-Install Aquaterm 1.0.1 (Universal Binary) on your Snow Leopard mac.
-Compile gnuplot on the SL machine as described in the previous post.
-Replace the gnuplot binary at /usr/local/bin on your Snow Leopard machine with a gnuplot binary from a 10.5 machine.
-Also replace gnuplot_x11 on /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.2 with one from a 10.5 machine.

That worked perfectly for me.

Thu, 2009-09-24 04:33 — TeGa

No need for 64bit Aquaterm,

No need for 64bit Aquaterm, but i think X11 is 64bit, so it would be nice to have everything in 64 and avoid the hassle. (I'm getting a bit tired typing -m32 for everything)

If you don't need X11, another workaround that I got working is

export LDFLAGS=-m32
export CFLAGS=-m32
./configure -with-readline=bsd --without-tutorial --without-x
make
sudo make install

Sun, 2009-10-25 23:23 — nicofournier

Why not using the binaries?

If you don't absolutely need to compile it, installing the whole lot with binaries works like a charm on 10.6.1. You'll find a quick How-To here for Octave but including Gnuplot and Aquaterm

You may also need to set up the GNUTERM environment variable to aqua in your .profile (e.g. export GNUTERM='aqua')

Nico

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www.gns.cri.nz

Tue, 2010-01-19 06:29 — jonalm

RE: No need for 64bit Aquaterm,

to TeGa: Is this workaround supposed to get Aquaterm to work with gnuplot?
I get the same problem as before:

gnuplot> set term aqua
^
unknown or ambiguous terminal type.....

with AquaTerm v1.0 and Gnuplot v4.4.0 on my macbookpro (osx10.6.2)
It does not seem to work with x11 either.

Sun, 2010-02-07 16:04 — Hip

Aquaterm in Snow Leopard

I don't know if this is relevant or useful, but I was using gnuplot with AquaTerm in OS Leopard without problem, and as soon as I upgraded to OS Snow Leopard, AquaTerm did not work anymore.

However, it was a simple problem: as long as a launched AquaTerm before running a gnuplot graph, AquaTerm would work fine (in OS Leopard, I could issuing a plot graph command in gnuplot, and AquaTerm would auto-launch, but Snow Leopard seems to require that you launch AquaTerm before issuing a plot command.

So if you haven't already, try just making sure that AquaTerm is running before launching gnuplot.

Wed, 2010-02-17 10:20 — TeGa

Yes, Aquaterm should be ok,

@jonalm

Yes, Aquaterm should be ok, it was X11 I was having problems with.