haskell-plot/README
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THIS README COPIED FROM THE diagrams PACKAGE
Graphics.Rendering.Plot provides an embedded domain-specific
language (EDSL) for creating plots rendered with Cairo
For some examples of use, see http://code.haskell.org/plot/examples .
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To install the Plots library:
1. Get the dependencies
The plots library uses Haskell bindings to the Cairo vector
graphics library. In order to build the plots library, you
will first need the following:
* The Cairo library itself. This is probably available through
your system's package manager and may even already be installed.
On Ubuntu, for example, it is available from the 'libcairo'
package.
* The Haskell cairo bindings, which are packaged as part of
gtk2hs.
cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools
cabal install gtk
* The colour library, which is available from Hackage. If you use
the cabal-install build option described below, the colour
library will be downloaded and installed for you automatically.
2. Build
* Option 1: use cabal-install
If you have cabal-install, *after* installing gtk2hs, you can
install plots and the remaining dependencies with
cabal-install:
cabal install plot
Optionally, you can also pass options such as --user
--prefix=$HOME to install locally.
* Option 2: manual build
Once all the dependencies are built and installed, you can build
and install plots as follows:
runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME --user
runhaskell Setup.lhs build
runhaskell Setup.lhs install
(Optionally, you can omit the --prefix and --user arguments to the
configure step, and run the install step with 'sudo' in order to
install the library systemwide.)
3. Building Haddock documentation (recommended)
runhaskell Setup.lhs haddock
Once the documentation has been built, you can access it by
pointing your browser to dist/doc/html/plot/index.html.