>>Unfortunately I don't think I have enough space to install virtualbox. >>I presume I need a few 10s of GB for an Ubuntu install?
not at all ! :-) the beauty of Virtual Box is that it has this feature called dynamic size. you can install ubuntu with 8GB or less. all the OS is contained on a single file on the host system. so it does not alter the host in any shape or form I routinely install and delete linux installations just to test something >> > I have also just tried on the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (still trying > to decide if I like this or Cygwin best. Anyway...). go for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows if you have Windows 10 I have Windows 7 and I use git bash ; so I can run bash on Windows 7 >> Again everything > works fine on this (I'm using Xming for my X server). the bug does not happen in Windows ; that is if you mean the Visual Studio build that uses the wxWidgets WIN32 API completely different from the GTK part on Linux >> > I suspect that you are correct Alan and this is a subtle VitualBox > thing. see my previous email the errors happened on real linux installations ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Rosenberg" <p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com> To: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> Cc: "Pedro Vicente" <pedro.vice...@space-research.org>; "PLplot development list" <plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error > Unfortunately I don't think I have enough space to install virtualbox. > I presume I need a few 10s of GB for an Ubuntu install? > > I have also just tried on the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (still trying > to decide if I like this or Cygwin best. Anyway...). Again everything > works fine on this (I'm using Xming for my X server). > > Is there something different with the X server or something in a > VirtualBox install? > > I suspect that you are correct Alan and this is a subtle VitualBox > thing. We should create a minimum working example of a wxFrame using > the two stage creation totally independent of plplot and see if this > works. If it doesn't then we know this is a VirtualBox/wxWidgets bug. > If it does then we can start adding complexity to find where it > breaks. > > On 16 December 2016 at 00:05, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> > wrote: >> On 2016-12-15 17:19-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote: >> >>> Hi Phil >>> >>> >>>>> I can't help feeling that there is something that we are missing here. >>>>> Given both I and Pedro have tested on Ubuntu 14.04 there must be >>>>> something different between the two systems. >>> >>> >>> it seems so. >>> the only way to be sure is that on your side to install a completely new >>> Ubuntu, or Debian on VirtualBox, and then do >>> >>> sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev >>> >>> VirtualBox can be installed on Windows or Mac (this is called the host >>> system). >>> I am running it on my Windows machine and I have three linux installed >>> on >>> it , ubuntu, centos, debian >> >> >> @ Phil and Pedro: >> >> I am beginning to wonder whether something that is being done >> differently but legitimately by VirtualBox is highlighting some subtle >> bug we have in the Linux wxwidgets code that doesn't happen to show any >> symptoms for the non-VirtualBox'd case. >> >> @Phil: >> >> I am just going to go ahead and merge Pedro's patch (once he gets it >> to me in "git format-patch" form) to SF master since it apparently >> solves his "VirtualBox" issue (if we can call it that) without messing >> up the Linux success we have on non-VirtualBox'ed Linux. But if you >> have any qualms about his changes, feel free to either contact me >> immediately (if you are not sleeping now) or ask me to revert my merge >> of his work tomorrow. >> >> >> Alan >> __________________________ >> Alan W. Irwin >> >> Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and >> Astronomy, >> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). >> >> Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state >> implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time >> Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting >> software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project >> (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); >> and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). >> __________________________ >> >> Linux-powered Science >> __________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
