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#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION INSTALL#
#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION PC#
#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION PLUS#
#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION WINDOWS#

Next up, Part Six - Using gnuplot from a C++ Program.

#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION WINDOWS#

You can tell if the X Windows server is running by looking for its icon in the Windows System Tray (bottom right of screen):Įxample of gnuplot being used from the windows command prompt: Using the Windows Command PromptĪs long as the X Windows server is running (its started when you run the "Start X Windows" shortcut) you can run gnuplot from the Windows Command Prompt (instead the Cygwin prompt). There is also more documentation at the official home page, P.S.

Type "exit" at the gnuplot prompt to exit the gnuplot program.įor more help using gnuplot interactively like this, I suggest you turn to Google.

Try zooming by using the middle mouse button (middle click and move the mouse left and right).

Try adjusting the vertical scale using the middle mouse button (middle click and move the mouse up and down).

Try adjusting the viewpoint using the left mouse button (left click and move the mouse up and down).

Try rotating the figure using the left mouse button (left click and move the mouse left and right).

The command splot (special plot?) is used for 3D graphs, in this case f(x,y) = x^2 - y^2.

Try typing splot x*x-y*y and press enter.

Try zooming in by using the right mouse button.

Try resizing the graph window, and maximising it.

You should get a graph of the function appearing in a new window, like this:.

At the gnuplot prompt, try typing plot sin(x) and press enter.

At the prompt, type gnuplot and press enter.

To check the installation of gnuplot worked, run your "Start X Windows" shortcut (created in Part 4).

#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION INSTALL#

Click on the next button, and let Cygwin download and install gnuplot.Find the "gnuplot" entry and click on the text "Default" which should change to say "install".

#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION PLUS#

Click on the plus sybol, and some sub entries should appear.

Find the "Math" (which is American for Maths) entry (about halfway down the list).

Click on "Next" until you reach the "Select Packages" screen.

This will pick up and install any updates that have been issued for the Unix packages you have installed.This has not received proper testing yet.

Once a month or so, I recommend rerunning the setup program and just clicking through on Next and then Finish.

You can rerun the CygWin setup program to add additional Unix commands/programs (e.g., the g++ compiler for C++).

Your C: drive in CygWin is known as /cygdrive/c, your D: drive is /cygdrive/d, and so on.

#HOW TO SELECT PACKAGES CYGWIN INSTALLATION PC#

You can still access all of the files on your Windows PC from the CygWin terminal session.

Paths to files use forward slashes (‘ /’) rather than baskslashes (‘ \’).

The default Install Root is c:cygwin which should be fine for most installations. Commands issued in a CygWin session follow Linux conventions rather than Windows ones. Choose, Install from Internet, this will still save the package files to your download directory so that you can install Cygwin on any number of machines: Click Next to proceed to the next screen.In this session, you can issue most of the commands that you will be learning about in this course.You will now have a “CygWin Terminal” entry in your Start menu. Put a check mark by “Add icon to Start menu”, and click Finish. Click on the “Skip” entry and select the latest (largest-numbered) version.Ĭontinue on clicking Next until you come to the screen with the Finish button.