From graphics-request at octave dot org Wed Oct 20 23:56:54 2004
Subject: Re: gd-octave 1.8.4
From: Hemant Kumar <cl10112 at nitt dot edu>
To: Rafael Laboissiere <rlaboiss at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: Muthu <dearestchum at yahoo dot co dot in>, graphics@octave.org
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:47:50 -0500

Hello...

Thanks for the suggestions....we will incorporate them in our next release.

-- 
I used to be indecisive...
but now i am not so "sure"


Quoting Rafael Laboissiere <rlaboiss at users dot sourceforge dot net>:

> * Muthu <dearestchum at yahoo dot co dot in> [2004-10-17 01:47]:
> 
> > Hello Folks!
> > Im happy to announce gd-octave.
> > GD library a generalpurpose 2-D graphics
> > library has been successfully ported to
> > Octave.
> > 
> > Please go through the web page at
> > http://cybernetics.freewebspace.com/gd-otave/
> > For downloading and details.
> > 
> > You need:
> > A standard GNU/Linux distro [Debian,FC2,RH9,Mandrake]
> > GD Library itself [Old version 1.8.4]
> > Octave package
> > http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-1.8.4.tar.gz
> > libjpeg,libzip,libpng12 
> > 
> > To BUILD the package:
> > tar -xzvf ./gd-octave-0.0.3.tgz
> > cd gd-octave-0.0.3
> > cd src
> > make
> 
> Unfortunately, compilation fails with GD 2.0.28.  The reason is because your
> src/rules.flex does not cope with the new syntax in /usr/include/gd.h. I
> hacked src/Makefile (using Perl and sed, sorry, no Python knowledge here) as
> in the patch is attached below.
> 
> Furthermore, you hardcoded too much things for generating the gd.oct file.
> Instead of using:
> 
>     gcc --shared -o gd.oct gdwrap.cpp -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.50  -I
> /usr/include/octave-2.1.50/octave -lgd
> 
> it is far better and failure-proof to use:
> 
>     mkoctfile -o gd.oct gdwrap.cpp -lgd
> 
> Finally, you should consider using Autoconf/Automake for configuring your
> package.  For an alternate (and probably more robust) approach for
> generating the wrapper code, you might take a look at Matwrap
> (http://lnc.usc.edu/~holt/matwrap/). We have been using it in the PLplot
> project (http://plplot.sf.net) and it works very well.
> 
> At any rate, thanks for your effort and keep going!
> 
> -- 
> Rafael
> 


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