From help-request at octave dot org Sat Sep 11 14:03:09 2004 Subject: Re: Octave on Windows XP using Cygwin: plotting ? From: Bart Vandewoestyne To: help at octave dot org Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:40:30 -0500 On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:38:46PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote: > > I think the problem is that in the time that has passed since I > created the Cygwin packages for Octave and gnuplot, a new package for > gnuplot appeared in the official set of Cygwin packages. That version > is a native Cygwin build, which can't open plot windows directly in > Windows. If you want to do that (and I think it is better than > running X just to get plotting to work) then you can do the following: > > * Download a binary of gnuplot for Windows from the gnuplot area on > sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot). Click on > the download button next to the 4.0.0 version of gnuplot. Then > download the file gp400win32.zip. > > * Unzip the gp400win32.zip file. > > * Copy the files > > pgnuplot.exe wgnuplot.exe wgnuplot.hlp wgnuplot.mnu > > to /usr/local/bin in your Cygwin installation. > > * Test it by running Octave again and trying to make a plot. For > example, sombrero (41). Thanks John, this indeed worked. Still, now, I have the overhead of Cygwin. Suppose I was someone who just needed Octave + plotting capabilities on Windows and I am not really interested in installing Cygwin, is it then also possible to get things working without Cygwin? Would i then only have to install the following file octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888 Is this enough, or dhoesn't this installer include gnuplot and do I then also need the files from gp400win32.zip as you mentioned? And if 'yes' to this last question, then do i need to 'connect' octave and gnuplot in a certain way for them to be able to work together? Regards, Bart PS: this might be a little off-topic, but for those interested: I am maintaining a list of Open Source Software for Windows. See http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ I'm quite sure a lot of you will find it an interesting list :-) -- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! email change !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My email address is now Bart.Vandewoestyne AT telenet.be Please update your addressbook! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------