Gnudraw Installation

For installation, first download the necessary files, then follow the installation instructions below.

Downloads

The files which are needed are:

GnuDraw installation instructions

Quick install instructions

In short, you should get GnuPlot to work, unzip the gnudraw7.zip file from your Ox root directory. On windows, install gp4XXwin32.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/ by unzipping it in your c:\program files folder, creating c:\program files\gnuplot and subdirectories. On Unix, make sure that GnuPlot is installed.

Elaborate installation instructions

To install GnuDraw, follow the next steps:
  1. (If you previously installed an older version of GnuDraw, delete this old installation, and then) Unzip the file gnudraw7.zip from your Ox folder (using folder names). This creates files in the directory <ox-home>/packages/gnudraw. In this case, no change of the OX7PATH environment variable is needed. Installation in a local directory is also possible; e.g. if you install under Windows in c:\myox, resulting in files in 
    c:\myox\packages\gnudraw
    then make sure that the directory c:\myox is included in the OX7PATH variable. Note that it is important that the OX7PATH variable does not contain any spaces.
  2. Unix
    Install GnuPlot if it wasn't done before, by downloading and installing the lastest rpm or other package. Use version 4.0 or higher. RPMS or deb-files should come included with your distribution, or install from source downloading from SourceForge.net
    Windows
    Install GnuPlot if it wasn't done before. Download the windows binary gp4XXwin32.zip from SourceForge.net

    Unzip the file into c:\program files\ (or c:\program files (x86)\ for 64-bit Windows), checking afterwards that the wgnuplot.exe binary indeed ended up in c:\program files\gnuplot\binary\.

    If you cannot write the binary in this directory, you can instead set an environment variable
    set GNUPLOTEXEC=f:\bin\gnuplot\binary\wgnuplot.exe
    (if you installed GnuPlot in f:\bin) to indicate the full location of the executable.

    Mac OS X
    Install GnuPlot if it wasn't done before, by first installing MacPorts downloading the dmg for your system and double-clicking on the pkg inside. Note how MacPorts depends on an installation of Apple's Xcode Developer Tools and the X11 windowing environment (see your install CD/DVD, or download and install it from the web).

    With those prerequisites (both MacPorts and Xcode) in place, type from a terminal 

        sudo port upgrade --force installed
    sudo port install gnuplot 
    sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/gnuplot /bin
  3. Option A:
    Put the file <ox-home>/packages/gnudraw/doc/gnudraw7.html in your list of bookmarks, or, better even,
    Option B:
    Edit <ox-home>/doc/oxmenu.html, adding a line 
    <tr><td><a href="../packages/gnudraw/doc/gnudraw7.html">GnuDraw graphics</a></td></tr>
    after the line referring to the original OxDraw documentation such that the documentation is available from the standard Ox documentation.
  4. Test your installation by copying drawacf.ox to a directory where you have write permissions, and running Ox on it.

    On MacOS X, it may be that OxEdit complains 

     sh: gnuplot: command not found
    In that case, OxEdit does not have its paths set correctly. An admittedly not ideal solution is to start OxEdit from the terminal instead of from the menu, typing 
       /Applications/OxMetrics7/OxEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/OxEdit &
  5. (Optional)
    Associate files with extension .plt with the gnuplot executable (gnuplot/bin/wgnuplot.exe on Windows, or e.g. /usr/bin/gnuplot on Linux), with extension .plb with the batch file <ox-home>/packages/gnudraw/bin/plb2x (Unix/Mac OSX) or <ox-home>/packages/gnudraw/bin/plb2x.bat (Windows)

    In order to be able to use the plb2x batch file from a terminal screen, you could also include those batch files in your path, using (on Unix:) 

    cd ~/bin
ln -s /usr/share/OxMetrics7/ox/bin/plb2x
    or (on Mac OSX) 
    cd ~/bin
ln -s /Applications/OxMetrics7/ox/packages/gnudraw/bin/plb2x
    or (on Windows), including the <ox-home>packages\gnudraw\bin directory in your path.