Compiling and Using plt under Mac OS X (Darwin)

plt has been successfully compiled under Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Darwin 7.9.0) and several earlier versions of Mac OS X.

You will need to obtain and install several packages of free software needed by plt. For those not available from Apple, we suggest using Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), an easy-to-install collection of free Unix tools that have been ported to Mac OS X.

Before compiling plt, download and install:

• X11 for Mac OS X (included in current Mac OS X CD sets, or from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html)
• Apple's XCode developer tools, including the X11 SDK from XCode's Packages folder (included in current Mac OS X CD sets, or from http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/)
• gv (from Fink; sources from http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/ ~plass/gv/ and http://www.ghostscript.com/)
• ImageMagick (from Fink; sources from http://www.imagemagick.org/)

Now follow the instructions above for Unix or Linux.