Hmmm,  The "no curve option found that matches 'terminal' error sounds like a 
basic problem with the test suite 
(which needs to be updated).  For a basic functionality test, try:


% perl -Mblib /usr/bin/perldl #(or whatever)
perl> use PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot;
perl> $w=gpwin();
perl> $w->plot(xvals(10),xvals(10)**2);

which should generate no errors and a simple plot on your machine's default 
device.



On Jan 26, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:

> I also get the same error on ASPerl 5.12.3 with Vista:
> 
> F:\chm\pdl\git\PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot>dmake test
> C:\Users\chris.h.marshall\local\asperl\bin\perl.exe
> "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib\lib',
> 'blib\arch')" t/*.
> t
> t/manifest.t .. skipped: Author tests not required for installation
> t/plot.t ...... 1/5 testfile: pdl_graphics_gnuplot_test_Vonlcev
> WARNING: Hmmm,  gnuplot didn't respond for 5 seconds.  I was expecting to read
>   a version number.  Ah, well, I'm returning the object anyway -- but don't
>   be surprised if it doesn't work.
> 
> #   Failed test 'basic plotting succeeded without error'
> #   at t/plot.t line 36.
> # plot() died with 'No curve option found that matches 'terminal'
> # '
> 
> #   Failed test 'basic plotting created a reasonably-sized file'
> #   at t/plot.t line 43.
> # resulting output file should be ascii 79x24, but only contains 0 bytes
> 
> #   Failed test 'error detection works'
> #   at t/plot.t line 55.
> # plot() produced no error
> # Testing PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot 0.11ced, Perl 5.012003,
> C:\Users\CHRISH~1.MAR\local\asperl\bin\perl.exe
> # Looks like you failed 3 tests of 5.
> t/plot.t ...... Dubious, test returned 3 (wstat 768, 0x300)
> Failed 3/5 subtests
> 
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/plot.t    (Wstat: 768 Tests: 5 Failed: 3)
>  Failed tests:  2, 4-5
>  Non-zero exit status: 3
> Files=2, Tests=5,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.09 usr +  0.02 sys =  0.11 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> Failed 1/2 test programs. 3/5 subtests failed.
> dmake.exe:  Error code 131, while making 'test_dynamic'
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> For what it is worth, IPC:Run 0.90 fails to pass all
>> tests on cygwin/Vista and the latest git clone from
>> Craig's repo also fails to pass tests.  Maybe something
>> is broken in the test suite?
>> 
>> --Chris
>> 
>>  make test
>> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
>> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
>> t/manifest.t .. skipped: Author tests not required for installation
>> t/plot.t ...... 1/5 testfile: pdl_graphics_gnuplot_test_8pt8eAN
>> 
>> #   Failed test 'basic plotting succeeded without error'
>> #   at t/plot.t line 36.
>> # plot() died with 'No curve option found that matches 'terminal'
>> # '
>> 
>> #   Failed test 'basic plotting created a reasonably-sized file'
>> #   at t/plot.t line 43.
>> # resulting output file should be ascii 79x24, but only contains 0 bytes
>> 
>> #   Failed test 'error detection works'
>> #   at t/plot.t line 55.
>> # plot() produced no error
>> # Testing PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot 0.11ced, Perl 5.010001, /usr/bin/perl
>> # Looks like you failed 3 tests of 5.
>> t/plot.t ...... Failed 3/5 subtests
>> 
>> Test Summary Report
>> -------------------
>> t/plot.t    (Wstat: 0 Tests: 5 Failed: 3)
>>  Failed tests:  2, 4-5
>> Files=2, Tests=5,  4 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr  0.11 sys +  0.45 cusr
>> 1.05 csys =  1.65 CPU)
>> Result: FAIL
>> Failed 1/2 test programs. 3/5 subtests failed.
>> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> As far as PDL goes, the real problem is that the "talk
>>> to gnuplot" part doesn't work for win32---at least
>>> reliably.  Once the module is working for unix, macosx,
>>> and windows it would be a candidate for migration
>>> into the PDL core distribution.  Of course, there will
>>> need to be something like Alien::Gnuplot to handle
>>> installing the gnuplot dependency to support the
>>> module.  I don't know if that is already done or not....
>>> 
>>> --Chris
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Craig DeForest
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for having a look at this, Cliff.
>>>> 
>>>> Both Dima and I left the default terminal to be the same as the built-in 
>>>> Gnuplot default (that you get by not specifying one to gnuplot).  On the 
>>>> Mac, this defaults to "aqua"; on Fedora Linux it defaults to "X11cairo" 
>>>> (IIRC).
>>> 
>>> What is the default on win32?  I know it isn't X11.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Clifford Sobchuk wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> From your response, I take it you are using cygwin and not strawberry or 
>>>>> activestate perl. The IPC methods, I think I saw them in the .pm file 
>>>>> near the bottom. I was trying to figure out exactly what was being 
>>>>> called. I saw that gnuplot itself was being called which does work (not 
>>>>> with pipes unless they changed it to be consistent with *nix platforms - 
>>>>> previously it had to call pgnuplot for any piped actions), but I didn't 
>>>>> see where the terminal type was set (the default that is, I expect we can 
>>>>> put any terminal that is supported by gnuplot). I guess that during the 
>>>>> tests files it would call the X11 term type? Does this mean that if I 
>>>>> installed Xming that it would magically work - or at least pass the tests?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can give that a try and I'll check the differences between the IPC of 
>>>>> the Graphics::GnuPlotIF and PDL:Graphics::Gnuplot to see if there is 
>>>>> anything that I can naively spot as important.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried to build the .tar.gz file from the git and it fails during make.
>>>>> 
>>>>> drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d>perl Makefile.PL
>>>>> Set up gcc environment - 4.5.2
>>>>> Checking if your kit is complete...
>>>>> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>>>>>        debian/source
>>>>> Please inform the author.
>>>>> Writing Makefile for PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
>>>>> Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
>>>>> 
>>>>> C:\Users\eclisob\Downloads\drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d\drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d>make
>>>>> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, rem, ...) failed.
>>>>> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>>>>> make: *** [blibdirs] Error 2
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> CLIFF SOBCHUK
>>>>> Core RF Engineering
>>>>> Phone 613-667-1974   ecn: 8109-71974
>>>>> mobile 403-819-9233
>>>>> yahoo: sobchuk
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>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Craig DeForest [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:15 PM
>>>>> To: Dima Kogan
>>>>> Cc: Craig DeForest; Clifford Sobchuk; [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Perldl] PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot on Win32 Vista.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Dima Kogan wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Clifford Sobchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> I tried installing the PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot on top of 2.4.9 and it
>>>>>>> resulted in the following report from cpanm. Any pointers?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This just means that it couldn't run the gnuplot executable. I haven't
>>>>>> made any effort to make it work on Windows, so that's why you are
>>>>>> seeing the error. There shouldn't be a lot involved, but somebody has to 
>>>>>> do it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also it is important to note that the code on CPAN is my latest
>>>>>> branch. Craig has done lots of work on this module, and you should use 
>>>>>> his latest:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/drzowie/PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't know if Windows support was something he touched, but it's worth 
>>>>>> a try.
>>>>>> Craig, care to weigh in?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sure.  I've been working down the parse tree for Gnuplot.  The existing 
>>>>> module works great for a wide variety of simple things.  There is crude 
>>>>> FITS support.  It is possible to do everything that gnuplot can do (which 
>>>>> is quite a lot), but  edgier cases still require messing with the syntax 
>>>>> a bit (e.g. "xrange" works as advertised [you pass in a list ref 
>>>>> containing <min>,<max>], unless you set "xmdate" to plot time values on 
>>>>> the X axis, in which case you have to manually pass in a string that 
>>>>> contains double quotes -- but that will be fixed).
>>>>> 
>>>>> As for Windows support, I find that the "x11" device works fine with the 
>>>>> only Windows system I use.  Someone else who knows (or cares) how to 
>>>>> support the cra^H^H^Hstuff that comes out of Redmond can hack the 2-3 
>>>>> methods that do the actual IPC to the gnuplot process.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's an example plot I made recently for a paper.  It shows fields of 
>>>>> view of several instruments on the STEREO-A spacecraft and locations of 
>>>>> several CMEs that were tracked at the end of 2008.  It was surprisingly 
>>>>> easy to generate (and is just one frame in a movie).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd like to get one or two more rounds of smartening finished up and a 
>>>>> better test suite written, but I (and I think Dima) am planning to have a 
>>>>> CPAN release of PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot buttoned up in time for folks to 
>>>>> poke and prod it before 2.4.11 comes out (hopefully ~4-6 months after 
>>>>> 2.4.10).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Craig
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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