Macports install plplot with aquaterm software#

Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave.

To install the most recent version of Octave, type sudo port install octave-devel at the Terminal's command line. A list of what MacPorts has available for Octave is here. Follow MacPorts' installation instructions.Install XCode: This is done via the MacOS X App Store.Similar in aim and function to Fink and the BSDs' ports collections.Īn itemized overview of a MacPorts install is below.

Macports install plplot with aquaterm software#

It is a free/open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software. MacPorts, formerly called DarwinPorts, is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the MacOS X and Darwin operating systems.

Once the dependencies are resolved, the DMG may be created by sudo port mdmg octave-devel MacPorts.

While editing the Portfile for octave-devel, the references to metis should also be removed to avoid a GPL violation.

This means that Xfig output is not available using Octave's print() function/command. To resolve this, the octave-devel Portfile must be modified and the Transfig run-time dependency removed. There is one dependency ( Transfig) for which x11 is not optional. Review the output of the command port rdeps octave-devel to identify the ports whose variants must be modified to avoid gcc45 and xorg-libx11.

The sudo port mdmg octave-devel command fails when bundling the xorg-libx11 port.

To look for ports using a gcc45 variant, type port rdeps gcc45 at the terminal's command line.

gcc-4.7 must be used, as some dependencies are no longer supported by gcc-4.5.

Since the initial success with producing a bundle, two things have changed on the Macports end.

5.1 Fixing 'dyld: Library not loaded' Errors.

5 Problems, Restrictions, and Annoyances of the App Bundle.

4 Running Octave from the Terminal's Command Line.

3.2 Create an Application Template for Octave.

3.1 Produce a DMG for Octave and its dependencies.

2.2 Install Dependencies with Specific Variants.