Thanks for the hints Rob. All working now.
I uninstalled the PDL 2.4.7 using ppm. Yes, I had installed using it (ppm
listed) versus the ppd as I naively thought that if it were listed in ppm it
was picking up the ppd from the specified uwinnipeg repo. We should probably
put a note in the windows section to let others know that the command should be
run from the command line versus using ppm GUI.
Tri-d works, pgplot works, pdl2 works, history works, after deleting my history
file writing to the history file works as well.
Awesome.
Output for the data requested below.
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C:\Users\eclisob>perl -MDevel::REPL -e "print $Devel::REPL::VERSION"
1.003011
C:\Users\eclisob>perl -MTerm::ReadLine::Perl -e "print $Term::ReadLine::VERSION"
Can't locate object method "Features" via package "Term::ReadLine::Stub" at C:/P
erl/site/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 101.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
C:\Users\eclisob>perl -MTerm::ReadLine -e "print $Term::ReadLine::VERSION"
1.04
C:\Users\eclisob>perl -MPDL::Minuit -e 1
C:\Users\eclisob>
Weird regarding the ReadLine VERSION error though as I have it installed.
Ppm Reports:
Term-ReadLine-Perl
Version: 1.0303
Released: 2009-10-28
Author: Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]>
CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0303/
Installed files:
C:/Perl/site/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm
C:/Perl/site/lib/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm
C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Term/ReadLine/Perl/.packlist.
Cpan reports:
Going to write C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata
Module < Term::ReadLine (JESSE/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz)
Module Term::ReadLine::Gnu (HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz)
Module Term::ReadLine::Gnu::XS (HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz)
Module = Term::ReadLine::Perl
(ILYAZ/modules/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0303.tar.gz)
Either way it seems to be happy and working...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sisyphus [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: August-24-10 10:10 PM
To: Clifford Sobchuk; pdl-users; pdl-porters
Subject: Re: [Perldl] PDL-2.4.7 released to CPAN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Sobchuk" <[email protected]>
> Updated - I removed my compiled freeglut.dll from the system32
> directory and then reinstalled OpenGL - works fine. If you need to use
> your own compiled freeglut.dll & .lib, then one needs to download
> OpenGL using cpan, replace the .dll and .lib with your versions, then
> complete the make and make install from cpan. Either way works.
>
Interesting - I had problems when I tried to use OpenGL (built against the
freeglut.dll that ships with the OpenGL source) with my ppm builds of PDL. I
attributed those problems to the fact that my ppm builds of PDL had been built
against an OpenGL that, itself, had been built against a *static* freeglut
library. Perhaps the problem I experienced (the details of which I
forget) was simply a freeglut library version mismatch - and nothing to do with
mixing static and dynamic libs.
No matter - if an OpenGL that has been built against a dynamic freeglut library
works with the ppm builds of PDL, that's great. (Less headaches for me :-)
> 2) I have been using the latest version (well I actually updated to
> the latest with the install on this new computer) of GrWnd for the
> last several releases and it works fine on my machine. I believe that
> I downloaded the Prebuilt binary for MinGW (I have it installed). Yes,
> the error you described about the second window opening causing the
> error is the fault that I am experiencing. I have tried to download
> the toolkit > 10 times now and it simply times out before completing,
> so I have not tried to build my own version of the GrWnd.dll. This
> doesn't impede my use that much since I only have one window open.
The multiple windows problem is a bug in the pgplot library - at least in that
build of the library that ppm installs.
Plplot and it's wingcc graphics window provides an alternative to pgplot/grwnd
- but there's no demos of wingcc interacting with the pdl shell (afaik).
> 3) pdl2 kind of works on my machine. I had to force install
> Devel::REPL from cpan as the version in the ppm browser was too old
> and I thought that I saw that it was 1.03.0111 but after the install
> from ppm it seemed to go back to an earlier version. So I thought that
> it was installed, but it apparently failed quietly. I went in to cpan
> and tried to install, but it would fail on Sys::SigAction but said it
> may work if forced. Once I completed the force install, pdl2 would launch.
So, in the end you have version 1.003011 ?
Probably best to check:
perl -MDevel::REPL -e "print $Devel::REPL::VERSION"
and also, just so there's no doubt:
perl -MTerm::ReadLine::Perl -e "print $Term::ReadLine::VERSION"
I have 1.003011 and 1.05 respectively. (Is that up to speed with what's
recommended ?)
> Once able to launch pdl2 I
> get the following errors:
>
> C:\Users\eclisob>pdl2
> Unable to find PDL/pdldoc.db in C:/Perl/site/lib:C:/Perl/lib:.
>
Now that's odd.
The post-install script should install pdldoc.db (and does for me). You can see
it mentioned at the start of the installation process - in install.txt
(attached).
And it's definitely there for me.
I can't think of any way of working out what's gone wrong for you other than
to:
1) Firstly, 'ppm remove PDL'
2) Then manually delete the perl/site/lib/PDL folder, if it's still there.
It's still there for me, with Index.pod and pdldoc.db the only files remaining
in it. (These 2 files were not, after all, installed by the 'ppm install'
process itself, so it makes good sense that 'ppm remove' leaves them alone.)
3) Then re-run:
ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/PDL.ppd
Then see if pdldoc.db gets installed. If it doesn't, peruse the step 3) output
for any hints as to why that part of the post-install process failed.
(I've already gone through the above steps on my 5.12.1 build of ActivePerl,
just to make sure that it *is* installing .... not just there as a result of
something I've done previously.)
Otherwise Clifford, I could just send you Index.pod and pdldoc.db - I think
they'll relocate just fine.
> And upon exit:
>
> pdl> Use of uninitialized value $lines in substitution (s///) at
> C:/Perl/site/li
> b/PDL/Perldl2/Plugin/PDLCommands.pm line 29.
> Freeing FFT space
> warning: unable to WriteHistory to C:/Users/eclisob/.perldl_hist
Don't know what's going on there,. nor what effects it might have. Chris ?
> I was not able to use command history either - probably due to the
> error I am guessing. I don't know why the error exists, I even opened
> up the security on Vista to allow everyone to
> read/write/execute/modify the file to no avail. I am using the
> Term::ReadLine::Perl module for the readline capability. The cpan shell does
> have command history.
>
> By the way, previously when Devel::REPL was not installed (properly)
> it did not drop down to perldl properly. It was in some weird state
> where the prompt said pdl> but the commands were DOS commands - I
> tried help and it listed the DOS commands...
>
> If you can think of any reason why the history is not working I would
> appreciate any help.
>
History works for me - but not with the up and down arrow keys (unless the TERM
environment variable is set to dumb ... and then you probably lose some other
functionality).
I think Chris wanted emacs behaviour with the new shell - so try Ctrl-P
(instead of up arrow) and Ctrl-N (instead of down arrow). That works for me ok.
Cheers,
Rob
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