This post provides instructions on building PLPLOT with Absoft Fortran 95 11.0 for 32 or 64 bit Linux.
PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots. To help accomplish that task it is organized as a core C library, language bindings for that library, and device drivers which control how the plots are presented in non-interactive and interactive plotting contexts.
The PLplot core library can be used to create standard x-y plots, semi-log plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page, and multiple pages are allowed for those device formats that support them.
DOWNLOADING THE REQUIRED SOURCE PACKAGE
Full documentation and the source package required to build PLPLOT can be obtained here
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/These instructions use version 5.5.3 obtained here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/files/plplot/5.5.3%20Source/plplot-5.5.3.tar.gz/downloadCREATING THE PLPLOT SOURCE TREE
Extract the PLPLOT source with the following command:
tar -xzvf plplot-5.5.3.tar.gz
This will create a directory named plplot-5.5.3 in the current working directory.
MAKING A TARGET BUILD DIRECTORY
While it is possible to build the PLPLOT library inside the PLPLOT source directory, it is better to create a separate build directory. The remaining instructions below assume that a directory named plplot_build has been created at the same level as the PLPLOT source directory using this command:
mkdir plplot-build
CONFIGURING, BUILDING AND INSTALLING PLPLOT
Use following commands configure, build and install PLPLOT 5.5.3 with Absoft Fortran 95 11.0 and later. These commands configure PLPLOT to install into /opt/plplot. If you want to install to a different location, replace /opt/plplot in the --prefix= argument to the configure command. These commands configure the double precision version of PLPLOT. If you want to build the single precision version instead, add --with-double=no as an argument to the configure command.
cd plplot-build
../plplot-5.5.3/configure F77=/opt/absoft11.0/bin/af77 FFLAGS=-unixlib \
--prefix=/opt/plplot --enable-shared=no
make
make install
Note: you may need to execute the make install command with administrator privileges. In that case, use 'sudo make install'.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information on building PLPLOT can be found in various README files located in the PLPLOT source directory.
