The files qt_example.cpp, qt_PlotWindow.cpp, and qt_PlotWindow.h contain source code for a simple example demonstrating how to access the PLplot API from a Qt GUI application. For all our build systems (cmake in the build tree, cmake in the installed examples build tree, and the traditional pkg-config+Makefile build system for the installed examples tree), you build this simple Qt example (with all dependencies taken care of automatically) by running make qt_example For our two CMake-based build systems you can run this example (with all dependencies taken care of automatically) by running make test_qt_example