Geomview 1.4.3 installation problems

[Paul Burchard <burchard at horizon.gw.umn.edu>]

The people at Swarthmore would like to work with W3Kit, and
so are trying to build Geomview and the OOGL libraries on
their Iris Indigo2 (don't know what version of Irix yet).
I told them to pick up the new 1.4.3 stealth release, but
they are still having problems.  Here is the
correspondence so far:

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To: burchard at geom
Subject: W3Kit and Cyberview
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 11:04:49 -0400
From: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>

burchard at geom.umn.edu writes:
>Yes, for this reason, the W3Kit toolkit has a 3D graphics widget  

>based on Geomview's OOGL libraries.  The Cyberview application code  

>that comes with W3Kit shows an example of its use.  The main  


We've been trying to use W3Kit for some simple stuff (text input and
output) and it worked fine.  However when I tried to compile Cyberview
it spat out an error:
        /usr/bin/ld:
        Unresolved:
        SphereCenter
        SphereRadius
And gave up.  (The two functions are in libsphere.a, one of the OOGL
libraries, and within that they are from spheremisc.o).  By including
that object file explicitly we were able to get the program to
compile and link, but a "make install" gave an error
        GeomCreate: unknown object class sphere
        *** Error code 139 (bu21)
apparently while running the sample app (I called it minnelevel-app)
to generate the stuff.

The two functions appear to only be used once, in W3MinneGraphics.m.
We've been using the X11-beta source compiled on our Indigo2.  We have
had trouble compiling that, too. (It compiles the libraries, but we
aren't sure they are correct, since some of the binaries DON'T
compile (examples))

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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 20:57:35 CDT
From: burchard (To: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>)
To: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: W3Kit and Cyberview

>       /usr/bin/ld:
>       Unresolved:
>       SphereCenter
>       SphereRadius

Does the OOGL sphere library (-lsphere) appear in the final linking step?   
The place where this should be set is the variable OOGLLIBS in the file  
W3Kit/makefiles/Makerules.  By the way, if you are using W3Kit 1.0, I would  
recommend upgrading to W3Kit 2.0 or 2.1 (I think I fixed up the list of  
OOGL libs a bit in that upgrade).

> The two functions appear to only be used once, in
> W3MinneGraphics.m. We've been using the X11-beta
> source compiled on our Indigo2.  We have had trouble
> compiling that, too. (It compiles the libraries, but we
> aren't sure they are correct, since some of the binaries
> DON'T compile (examples)) 


As of today, there is a new release 1.4.3 at our FTP site which fixes many  
bugs in the X11 beta libraries.  In particular, the "example" should now  
compile (but that was not a serious bug in any case).  I highly recommend  
picking up the new release.

Let me know if you have any further problems.

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To: burchard at geom
Subject: Re: W3Kit and Cyberview 

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 06:25:49 -0400
From: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>

burchard at geom.umn.edu writes:
>Does the OOGL sphere library (-lsphere) appear in the final linking  

>step?  The place where this should be set is the variable OOGLLIBS in  

>the file W3Kit/makefiles/Makerules.  By the way, if you are using  

>W3Kit 1.0, I would recommend upgrading to W3Kit 2.0 or 2.1 (I think I  

>fixed up the list of OOGL libs a bit in that upgrade).

Yes, it is included.  We're using 2.0.  So 2.1 is out there?

>As of today, there is a new release 1.4.3 at our FTP site which fixes  

>many bugs in the X11 beta libraries.  In particular, the "example"  

>should now compile (but that was not a serious bug in any case).  I  

>highly recommend picking up the new release.

We got the new release -- and "example" still wouldn't compile until I
tweaked the source a little.  Still haven't gotten x-geomview to run
correctly -- I think maybe it built the GL version instead.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:18:38 CDT
From: burchard (To: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>)
To: Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush at sccs.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: W3Kit and Cyberview

> We've been using the X11-beta source compiled on our Indigo2.
[...]
> Still haven't gotten x-geomview to run correctly -- I think
> maybe it built the GL version instead.

I will refer you to Stuart Levy <slevy at geom.umn.edu> on the Geomview  
problems.  There are a couple of key pieces of info which will allow him to  
help you effectively:

1. What version of Irix are you running?  (We don't have 5.x at the Center  
yet.)

2. What exactly is the failure you are seeing in X Geomview?  (If it is  
during the build, could you send us the makefile output?)

Thanks,

Paul Burchard