On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Brian Granger<ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ondrej, > >> Many thanks for this! Some comments below: >> >>> >>> Here is their main page for information about building VisIt: >>> >>> https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html >>> >>> Here is the "build_visit" shell script that will build visit from >>> source (check it out, it is 10000 lines long and crazy!) >>> >>> https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.2/build_visit >> >> This is crazy. We can surely do better. They have one script for >> everything, that's bad. The way to go is to just make sure every >> single spkg package builds fine on all platforms. > > Yes, the one big script makes life pretty difficult. But now you can > see why I have said that building VisIt cross-platform is not for the > faint of heart. > >> So if you look how they install mesa, it's crazy too. Look at how I >> install mesa: >> >> >> cd src >> ./configure --prefix="$SAGE_LOCAL" --with-driver=xlib --disable-glut >> --disable-glw --enable-gl-osmesa >> make >> cp lib/* $SAGE_LOCAL/lib >> cp -r include/* $SAGE_LOCAL/include >> >> And this works on *all* platforms, be it linux or Mac. The last two >> lines can be changed for "make install" on linux, but unfortunately >> this fails on Mac (it tries to copy .so files instead of dylib), so I >> just copy things by hand and it works everywhere. > > What about getting rid of the X11 stuff like they do. You definitely > don't want to link to that on OS X if you are going to be using a
Do Mac systems have /usr/include/X11? the bsd.math has it. If generaly not, then I still need to tweak the configure to build without X11 at all, if that is possible (maybe not). > Cocoa/Carbon based VTK (which you will). Are you sure that your Mesa > build works? .so's and .dylib's are different in more than just name. > If the Mesa build system is not setup to properly create dylibs, I > doubt it will work. Yes, I am pretty sure this works, at least on bsd.math. I then used my Cython wrappers for mesa and produces a nice ppm image offscreen on bsd.math. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
