Re: Lua terminal err: No driver name or file name given.

> On Saturday 20 June 2009, Tim Teatro wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Yesterday I downloaded and compiled the CVS version of GNUPLOT. I had
>> to apt-get Lua, and follow the instructions here
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1127979
>>
>> to get the configure script to pick it up. Compilation seems to go
>> fine, but when I try to set the terminal:
>>
>> gnuplot> set term lua
>> Terminal type set to 'lua'
>>          No Lua driver name or file name given!
>>
>> I checked the config.log, and there's a bunch of nonsense about not
>> finding lua.h. I'm not sure why, since
>>
>> pkg-config --cflags "lua"
>> -I/usr/include/lua5.1
>>
>> Anyhow, the -I flag shows up fine in CPPFLAGS in the Makefile, but I
>> don't know if it's being picked up or not by GCC.
>>
>> Could anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>
> "lua" is the name of a generic driver that can in theory create
> several different output formats.  The only one implemented at this
> point is tikz, but the intent is that in the future there could be
> others.  To create tikz output, you can either say
>   set term lua tikz
> or just
>   set term tikz
>
> This is similar to how the current gd terminal driver works.
> It can be used to create gif, png, or jpeg output.  But you don't
> say "set term gd", you say "set term png" and so on.
>