[VM][LINUX][DEBIAN] Building

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sat Jun 7 08:39:09 UTC 2003


Am Freitag, 06.06.03 um 20:48 Uhr schrieb Alexander Lazarević:

> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 18:57 schrieb Tim Rowledge:
>> You need the Balloon3d package,
>
> Ah, that was the missing bit. Thanks.
>
> The road to a self compiled vm is still a very rough one. For example 
> the
> configure script checks for existing GL files, but in the makefile the 
> linker
> fails because GL and X libraries/paths are not included in the list of
> libraries the linker should consider. Another pitfall is, that it 
> seems that
> a 3.5 vm can't be compiled with a gcc3 (default C compiler in debian 
> sid by
> now). The vm compiles and links ok, but launching it with a 3.5 image
> presents an emergency evaluator on startup. If this is a known issue I 
> would
> say that the configure script should check for the right compiler 
> version,
> should it not?

But does 3.4 work? We should make sure that the stable release works 
first.  Note that the 3.4 VM should run everything out there just fine. 
3.5devel ist still very rough even according to Ian, it contains lots 
of experimental code.

> Besides, compiling a vm on windows with the source and wintool 
> archives from
> sourceforge happens like advertised. It's magic. :)

Cheers to Andreas for that!

-- Bert



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