Re: [Gretl-users] WG: Re: TikZ
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, juergen.malitte(a)t-online.de wrote:
>
>> Running the given skript on the recommended Internet-page I've got the
>> message:
>>
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\gretl\wgnuplot.exe"
>> "C:\Users\malitte\AppData\Roaming\gretl\gpttmp.g09584": exit code 1
>>
>> Fehler bei Skriptausführung: Stopp
>>> end plot --output=(a)dotdir/empty.ps
>
> Sorry, it should be made clear that this Lua-TikZ business is not going to
> work with the wgnuplot executable that is bundled with gretl for Windows,
> nor will it work using the gretl package for Mac OS X. It requires that the
> Lua library is installed and gnuplot is built with Lua support (and of
> course it's useful only if a TeX system is installed). For now it's
> basically a Linux-only thing.
I was under the impression that it's not impossible to have the Lua thing
working under windows. See here for example (in French):
http://perso.uclouvain.be/allan.barrea/opencv/gnuplot.html
Agreed, it's not impossible. It just won't happen with gretl on
Windows and Mac unless/until we cross-build the Lua Library, build
gnuplot linked against Lua, and include Lua in our package.
The only other way it could happen is if Windows users build or
somehow acquire a Lua-enabled wgnuplot.exe themselves and substitute
it for the one we package.
Allin