On 6/12/2013 8:29 PM, Jaime Villate wrote:
> On 06-12-2013 02:55, David Billinghurst wrote:
>> On 6/12/2013 10:20 AM, Jaime Villate wrote:
>>> See if [format,mgnuplot] works in your system. I've trying to
>>> recover that format, and it might work in some systems and not in
>>> others (for instance in recent windows versions the Starkit required
>>> has not been built). If that works, it will give you a chance to
>>> modify the preamble and replot.
>>>
>> Perhaps I can fix this for windows. What should I be looking for?
>>
> Hi David,
> I'm not sure what's missing because I just saw in one of my student's
> PC that the Tk script for mgnuplot was not
> found in Windows. I suspect that the starpack for mgnuplot is not
> being created because of a missing
> target in the Makefile,but it could be that the starpack is hidden
> somewhere that Maxima cannot find it.
>
> By the way, I fixed the problem with SBCL and Gnuplot in Windows and
> it now works, but it seems to me that
> there is still an issue in Xmaxima which cannot open the socket to
> communicate with Maxima. If you can check
> that it would be great and more important than the mgnuplot issue
> (fixing mgnuplot is already in my list of
> priorities for after the December release).
>
> Regards,
> Jaime
I have committed patches to build and install mgnuplot.exe on windows.
It works from the command line, which sets the path to gnuplot, but not
from xmaxima or wxmaxima which don't.
Hopefully I haven't broken the non-windows build. I will investigate
the path issue next.