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If it can't find one of those, if dies (and refuses to install), printing
a friendly message about how to get gnuplot before throwing an error.

In principle, gnuplot could be automagically downloaded and built, 
but it is distributed via Sourceforge -- which obfuscates interior
links, making such tools surprisingly difficult to write.

=head1 CROSS-PLATFORM BEHAVIOR

On POSIX systems, including Linux and MacOS, Alien::Gnuplot uses
fork/exec to invoke the gnuplot executable and asynchronously monitor
it for hangs.  Microsoft Windows process control is more difficult, so
if $^O contains "MSWin32", a simpler system call is used, that is
riskier -- it involves waiting for the unknown executable to complete.

=head1 REPOSITORIES

Gnuplot's main home page is at L<https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/>.

Alien::Gnuplot development is at L<https://github.com/drzowie/Alien-Gnuplot>.

lib/Alien/Gnuplot.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

If it can't find one of those, if dies (and refuses to install), printing
a friendly message about how to get gnuplot before throwing an error.

In principle, gnuplot could be automagically downloaded and built, 
but it is distributed via Sourceforge -- which obfuscates interior
links, making such tools surprisingly difficult to write.

=head1 CROSS-PLATFORM BEHAVIOR

On POSIX systems, including Linux and MacOS, Alien::Gnuplot uses
fork/exec to invoke the gnuplot executable and asynchronously monitor
it for hangs.  Microsoft Windows process control is more difficult, so
if $^O contains "MSWin32", a simpler system call is used, that is
riskier -- it involves waiting for the unknown executable to complete.

=head1 REPOSITORIES

Gnuplot's main home page is at L<https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/>.

Alien::Gnuplot development is at L<https://github.com/drzowie/Alien-Gnuplot>.