Installation problem(?) for grace
Volker Quetschke
quetschke@scytek.de
Thu Nov 23 16:56:00 GMT 2006
moka@hol.gr wrote:
> I need to port a linux application to windows. The main issue
> is the graphics, for which I use a system call to gracebat. So since the
> windows machine cannot be on the internet, I downloaded cygwin to a flash
> drive
> and then copied it and istalled it from the local(flash) directory. Apparently
> most of it works, but grace does not.
You neglected to give any information regarding your setup, see:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
but I might hazard a guess that you're seeing this problem:
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00354.html>
luckily this is solved by using a newer Imagemagick.
Volker
>
> I did run /bin/rebaseall and then rebooted. While I can do
> from the dos command line
> cat myfile.dat
> and that works fine, when I do
> grace
> or
> gracebat myfile.dat -hdevice JPEG -printfile gracetest.jpg
>
> I get no error, but no result either.(that is return value is 0 as it should,
> but no result)
>
> Although the grace bz2 file is some 1.43M, the grace and gracebat executables
> are only 37bytes!
No, it's a link:
$ ls -l `which grace`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 quetschke Users 32 Jul 27 12:10 /usr/bin/grace ->
/usr/share/grace/bin/xmgrace.exe*
> So it looks like this is an installation problem.
> But I removed grace and gracebat.exe fron /bin and reinstalled
> and I still get the same thing. Any ideas?
[snip unknown stuff]
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