LX 9000 or CNII?

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:30:11 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Thanks Martin,

Maybe I'll turn it over to my wife. She was a programmer for many years
until wising up and becoming a systems engineer (now retired). :-D

Dan, last night I got GPLIGC version 1.pre10 running - so far it looks
good, though as its effectively a beta release you might want to stick to
release 1.9

pre10 can only be built from source, so needs a C/C++ compiler. The only
problem I had was not understanding the way the OpenGL graphics package
is built. GPLIGC needs the GLUT utility package and it turns out that the
original version is abandonware for historical reasons, so I was stalled
until I discovered that GPLIGC uses the freeglut version. Then there was
a bijou snaggette which may be specific to RedHat Linuxes and their
clones: freeglut builds the GLUT library (which was already installed
under RedHat Fedora 22 as part of the freeglut package BUT this is only
the binary library, and to compile GPLIGC you also need the freeglut_devel
package, which is NOT installed by default - this contains the headers
etc that a compiler needs. Once I'd installed both ('dnf install
freeglut*') the compilation ran to completion and version pre10 burst
into life.

Apologies to all the non-developers on here, but I've posted the above in
the hope that it saves some head-scratching for anybody else attempting
to build GPLIGC from source.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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Hi Dan

The unzipping part is simple, just click on the zipped file and the file manager will show you the contents of the zipped archive, highlight and copy those files into a directory(folder) of your choice. Windows will unzip the files an route. Bill will accept your apology anytime you are ready .

Cheers

Paul


On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 02:09:04 UTC+10, Dan Marotta wrote:
I've downloaded the GPLIGC zip file and have gotten past the
warnings about zip files being dangerous (won't someone ever take a
risk anymore?).* Now I've got to figure out how to unzip it.*
Windows 8.1 is such a pain in the ass...




On 11/15/2015 12:05 PM, Martin Gregorie
wrote:



On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:29:54 -0800, John Carlyle wrote:



Finishing my prematurely posted comment:

Martin,

If you're a fortunate soul who "gets" Linux, then I'm sure GPLIGC is a
good thing for you. Most people I know just get overwhelmed by all of
the jargon and seek the simplicity of Windows. GPLIGC does have a
Windows version, but at a minimum one needs to load PERL. That's a show
stopper for me...



I've been a Linux user since 1998 and using UNIX and similar systems
since 1984, so I do that stuff without thinking about it. I don't
remember whether I've used Perl under Windows or not.

GPLIGC by and large 'just works', though its interface and command set
aren't exactly intuitive and I'll admit raising a few feature requests
against it, but it will keep me happy for the coming season and its price
is certainly right!







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Dan, 5J