Getting GnuPlot to compile on OSX

May 27, 2010 - 1 minutes read - 57 words

I misunderstood an officemate’s question yesterday and set out to compile gnuplot. Stock GNUPlot will fail to compile on OSX due to an incompatibility in the readline library. So when you compile, let GNUPlot know to use the one included:

> tar xzvf gnuplot*
> cd gnuplot-4.2.39
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-readline=builtin
> make
> sudo make install