Errors compiling

[AndreaDiPietro92]

Trying to compile some examples of QuickReferance.tex i get some errors:

% !TeX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[]{bodeplot,pgfplots, pgf}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\BodeTF[plot/mag/{blue,thick},plot/ph/{green,thick}]{num/{10,2,2.6,0},den/{1,0.2,100},d/0.01}{0.01}{1}
\end{center}
\end{document}

ERRORS: I can't write on file 'gnuplot/1.gnuplot'. ...10,2,2.6,0},den/{1,0.2,100},d/0.01}{0.01}{1} Emergency stop. ...10,2,2.6,0},den/{1,0.2,100},d/0.01}{0.01}{1}

It would be really useful to have some examples in the DOCS that can be compiled and the commands for compiling. Thank you

[rlkamalapurkar]

Which operating system are you using? QuickReference.tex compiles fine on all of the Windows machines I have access to.

[AndreaDiPietro92]

Kubuntu 21.10. A workaround is creating a gnuplot folder (manually). In this way the compiling works correctly.

[rlkamalapurkar]

On linux, you do have to create the directory manually. That is why I added the gnuplot directory to the repository with an empty .placeholder file in it. If you git clone the repository, everything will work. It won't, though when this package is distributed through CTAN.

I will either add that limitation to the documentation or include some code in the package to check which OS is being used and adjust the defaults accordingly.

Thanks for the bug report!

[rlkamalapurkar]

Added

\RequirePackage{ifplatform}
\ifwindows\else
  \immediate\write18{mkdir -p gnuplot}%
\fi

to the source code. Should now work on any on any non-windows operating system that has the mkdir -p command.