Re: [mxe-octave] cairo based and lua/tikz terminals supports of gnuplot build in mxe-octave

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
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> Date: 2016/5/30, Mon 11:02
> Subject: [mxe-octave] cairo based and lua/tikz terminals supports of gnuplot 
> build in mxe-octave 
> 
> Hello
> 
> Current gnuplot built in mxe-octave system only supports built-in terminals.
> The cairo based and lua/tikz terminals are not included.
> (For native build for linux, qt terminal supported because qt-4 is built in 
> mxe-octave)
> 
> The gnuplot graphics_toolkit supports the cairo based and lua/tikz terminals.
> 
> https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.2/____gnuplot__print_____8m_source.html
> 
> 
> Of course, full version of gnuplot is easily available for windows, MacOSX, 
> Linux, BSD or other systems.
> Therefore set of gnuplot_binary to the full featured gnuplot installed 
> outside 
> of octave.
> 
> However, this situation is not friendly for non-experienced users.
> 
> Two options are considered.
> 
> 1. State of mxe-octave will not be changed. Instead instructions of using 
> external gnuplot are described in the Wiki.
> 
> 2. The mxe-octave will be changed for gnuplot to be built with cairo based 
> terminals and lua/tikz terminal.
> Of course, this requires additional libraries to the mxe-octave system.
> 
> Option 1 is easy so that I will made a description on octave for windows wiki 
> and MXE wiki.
> After I will finish it I will ask check and revise here because my English is 
> poor.
> 
> For option 2, I would like to hear the opinion from the maintainer of the 
> mxe-octave.
> 
> Tatsuro


Option 1 is done at
 http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#gnuoplot

 http://wiki.octave.org/MXE#Note_for_gnuplot

Tatsuro