LX 9000 or CNII?

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

On 11/16/2015 2:32 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:08:58 -0700, 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...

Dan,

I can't help with unzipping - sorry (I haven't owned any Windows more
recent than Win95) - except to say that there are a number of FOSS (Free
Open Source) zip programs.

The Linux version has an automated install that assumes that Perl is
already installed and that a C++ compiler is available in case some speed-
boosting code needs to be recompiled - this is SOP for most Linux
programs that are not part of the Linux distribution you're running.

The README file in the ZIP archive says that support, a forum and bug
reporting are all available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpligc/support

The manual (in the ZIP) says that it needs Perl 5 with the Perl/TK module
plus Gnuplot (a Perl drawing module). It also says that, if there are no
downloads for your OS than you'll need a to have a C/C++. Well, the only
download is for all operating systems, so unless you have a C/C++
compiler installed and know how to use it, I suggest you forget about
GPLIGC for a while.

Meanwhile, while checking the website, I've just seen that I'm two
releases out of date and that GPLIGC has now been extended to handle
variable-barrel tasks (which I need) so I've just added updating it to my
todo list.



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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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