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Quickplot -- A fast interactive 2-D plotter.

The Quickplot homepage:

http://quickplot.sourceforge.net/

Requirements: pkg-config

You need the program pkg-config in your PATH. See: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/pkgconfig .

gtkmm and dependence

gtkmm is a C++ wrapper of the GNOME widget API, The GIMP Toolkit (GTK). There's other packages that gtkmm depends on. See: http://www.gtkmm.org/ for information. Quickplot version 0.7.8 (and below) works with gtkmm-2.2.* and will not work with gtkmm-2.4.*. Quickplot version 0.8.0 (and above) works with gtkmm-2.4.* and will not work with gtkmm-2.2.*.

libsndfile (optional)

See: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

GNU Autotools (for developing)

To add source and make a new confgiure script you need the GNU Autotools. See: At the time of writing this the GNU Autotools versions were found by using the --version option with said program:

running: automake --version && autoconf --version && libtool --version

      GNU automake 1.7.9
      GNU Autoconf 2.59
      GNU libtool  1.4.3

To build and install:

        ./configure --prefix=PREFIX_DIR
        make
        make install

PREFIX_DIR could be for example /usr/local which would cause the installed binary exicutable file to be installed at /usr/local/bin/quickplot and the put some html files and images in the directory /usr/local/share/doc/quickplot/html/

There's lots of options to the configure script that can be seen by running: `./configure --help'.

For developing:

to build:

        ./bootstrap
        ./configure --prefix=PREFIX_DIR
        make
        make install

to clean for CVS:

./cvsclean

Building on Windows: This may happen some day.

Options

Skip building it and get the windows binary release which you can get to from the Quickplot homepage, http://quickplot.sourceforge.net/.

For all other windows build options you need to install gtkmm first. How you install gtkmm will likely determine how you install Quickplot See http://www.gtkmm.org/ for information on gtkmm. If you want Quickplot to read sound files get libsndfile at http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/.

2. Bloodshed Dev-C++ -- quickplot.dev is a Dev-C++ project file. You can get the Bloodshed IDE (integrated development environment) package Dev-C++ from the homepage at http://www.bloodshed.net/, or try: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dev-cpp/.

3. MinGW -- You can also use the MinGW without the Dev-C++ IDE. For instructions on installing MinGW see http://www.mingw.org/. From the MinGW xterm-like thingy you can run: untar the quickplot tarball and cd to dirstory that is created (quickplot-VERSION/) and

run: ./configure make make install 4. CYGWIN -- http://www.cygwin.com/. I haven't gotten a good build of gtkmm on cygwin yet, but quickplot builds just fine until it trys to link to the gtk and gtkmm libraries, which I haven't built with cygwin. 5. MS Visual C++ -- We are not into blowing $2,000 on software we don't use. If your into it send a patch with a project file.

This file is part of Quickplot.

Quickplot is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA