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geomview successfully compiled!!


Thank you Brian!

Boy, these unupdated mirrors have been a real pain for me. I re-installed the lesstif package, as you suggested, and that fixed it. The problem is that when I first installed cygwin, I did so from a mirror that did not have the most up to date packages (ftp.csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/cygwin). Later, when I installed some packages that were missing, they came from ftp.mirrors.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin.com, which was also not up to date. Someone recently suggested I try mirrors.kernel.org instead to update my xfree86 packages but I never updated lesstif.

I'm not sure if the cygwin setup utility has an "Update" option where it reads the version available on that mirror, compares it to the version you have installed, and determines if you need an update or not. Anyway, it claimed I didn't need it but I re-installed it anyhow.

Well, it works great now.

The installation instructions on
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~mfoehl/Geomview_under_Windows.html
work fine, even without the -lDtPrint option. The alternate xforms library location
http://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/links/unix/desktop/xforms/NT/GnuWIN32/
seems to be acceptable as well.


To compile, and have the configure file detect the xforms library, the full path to them must be specified and that option must appear before the call to opengl or motif as follows

./configure -with-xforms=/usr/local/src/geomview-1.8.1/xforms/FORMS -with-motif=/usr/X11R6 -with-opengl=/usr/X11R6

I think I'll put up a website with ALL the files necessary, including the xforms library, for people to download in the future. I'll make sure to add a note listing the package versions I had installed when I compiled it.

Thanks again Brian.

--B.

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, B. Marchand wrote:

At any rate, I had already posted this to the cygwin-xfree site with no
real success in terms of responses. I posted it here as well only for
completion.

I appologize, as I just found that post.  I am *really* behind on my list
reading because of the flu, then the holidays, and then a funeral.  As
such, I am reading the list backward chronologically and trying to keep up
with the current stuff.

At any case, that post did not contain the vital error message that
clearly implies your problem.  If you would follow my suggestions about
updating your installation (particularly Xt, and lesstif), then
recompile, you should get much further.

Good luck.

--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444



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