Gnuplot 4.6 - Missing Files



On 27/09/2013 8:03 PM, Wilhelm Haager wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suppose, Maxima 5.30 (at least for Windows) lacks some
> Gnuplot files (Gnuplot 4.6). Hence producing Postscript images via 
> draw2d is not
> possible any more.
>
> I think, just the following directories - as they appear in
> older Gnuplot versions - are missing:
>  share
>  etc
>
> Regards
> Wilhelm Haager

This is a packaging error.  I probably introduced it when I "improved" 
the windows build system.  I will generate a fixed installer when I get 
time.

You can work around the problem yourself

 1. create a bin directory under Maxima-5.31.1\gnuplot\
 2. move all the files in Maxima-5.31.1\gnuplot\ to
    Maxima-5.31.1\gnuplot\bin
 3. copy the etc and share directories from gnuplot-4.6.3 into
    Maxima-5.31.1\gnuplot\
 4. edit Maxima-5.31.1\bin\maxima.bat
      * find the line starting "set path=%maxima_prefix%\gnuplot"
      * change "%maxima_prefix%\gnuplot" to "%maxima_prefix%\gnuplot\bin"


This works for me for some simple tests.