This File contains a set of hints for compiling STk and the things which have been reported about installation of STk. This file is very incomplete and I hope to be able to make it growing. If you experience a new port or confirm/infirm/add informations which are specified here please send a mail to 'eg@unice.fr' (there is a blank form at the end of this file) If you succeed in compiling STk on an architecture for which there is no binary release, please read the file BINARY_DISTRIB ______________________________________________________________________________ SunOs 4.1.x ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 X11: R5 and R6 Dynamic loading: I was not able to make a version using dynamic loading and the gnu loader. If your version of gcc use gld, you'll have probably to use the --disable-dynload option during configuration. (Note: I said probably since a lot of things don't work on this system which has a gcc with gld. Everything seems very poorly installed on this system) No problem with gcc and Sun ld. Who: Erick Gallesio (eg@unice.fr) Tested: Yes :) Remarks: The main system used for developping STk ______________________________________________________________________________ SunOs 5.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 X11: OpenWindows Dynamic loading: Should work. At least it seems to be conform to documentation :-> Must be Who: Erick Gallesio (eg@unice.fr) Tested: just make widget-demo Remarks: Some people have reported that they use dynamic loading but I can remember who (and it was on 2.1). ______________________________________________________________________________ Linux 1.0.9 -> 2.0.0 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 X11: XFree3.1.2 Dynamic loading: Dynamic loading is supported for DLD and ELF. (however DLD hqs not been tested since a long time, I'm not sure it continues to work). The configure script try to figure what type of dynamic loading works for you and enable dynamic loading by default. With recent kernels, it will probably be ELF. Who: Erick Gallesio (eg@unice.fr) Tested: yes Remarks: The other system used for developping STk. ______________________________________________________________________________ DEC Alpha OSF1 V2.0 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=cc Dont't use gcc 2.6 !!!!!! CFLAGS=-O2 X11: X11 R5 Dynamic loading: Erik Ostrom <eostrom@radon.ccs.neu.edu> told me to use ld for makeing the .so file. I quote him below: "If SH_LOADER is "ld", you get a huge warning about all the undefined symbols; but if it's "cc", ld just won't make the .so file. I assume there's a way to get better results, but this at least produced a working system." Who: Erick Gallesio (eg@unice.fr) Tested: Not a lot. Only the widget demo and some bignum tests. No more core dump on undefined variable Remarks: Don't use gcc. STk worked with gcc prior 2.6. It doesn't work anymore with this version of gcc. I have not investigated a lot with it but it seems that gcc 2.6 is unable to compile the bignum stuff (it yields warning during compilation whereas tthe code seems correct). Tests includes in the GMP packages dont pass anymore. Consequently, all computation which involve a bignum will be false (and could sometimes conduct to a core dump). I don't use this system. ______________________________________________________________________________ Dec 5xxx Ultix 4.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 X11: X11 R5 Dynamic loading: Not supported Who: Erick Gallesio (eg@unice.fr) Tested: Widget demo work. Remarks: I don't use this sytem. ______________________________________________________________________________ HP 9000/735 (HP-UX 9.01) ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=cc CFLAGS='-Ae -O' X11: ???? Dynamic loading: Dynamic loading is supported (support is due to Dipankar Gupta <dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>). This support has been sent to me as a patch file over 2.1. It must be extended for newer versions (the only file to modify is Src/dynload.c). Furthermore, options needed for compilation dosen't seems clear for me. I have guessed some of them but I may be wrong. Who: ottl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Tested: Widget demo only (I think) Remarks: Other people have reported that STk work on HP. I don't know if they have used it a lot. Every info is welcome. ______________________________________________________________________________ SCO ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: ??? X11: ??? Dynamic loading: ??? Who: markd@grizzly.com Tested: ??? Remarks: Use ptar (pax tar) to untar the distribution rather than standard tar. It seems that the standard tar doesn't handle correctly symbolic links. ______________________________________________________________________________ NetBSD 1.0 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: ??? X11: XFree ???? Dynamic loading: Yes. Contribution of Franke Ruediger (Ruediger.Franke@rz.tu-ilmenau.de) Who: Franke Ruediger Tested: ??? Remarks: ???? ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Irix 5.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 X11: X11R6 Dynamic loading: Dynamic loading is supported Who: tiemann@cygnus.com Tested: compiled, ran all demos (stk and stklos) Remarks: ______________________________________________________________________________ A new system (Mail this form to eg@unice.fr if you have made a new port) ______________________________________________________________________________ Compilation: Indicate here the values of CC and CFLAGS you used X11: Indicate here the X11 version you used Dynamic loading: Indicate here if dynamic loading is supported and all info that seems necessary for loading a file in a running interpreter. Who: your email or "Anonymous" if you don't want to bother yourself with that anymore. Tested: How much you have tested STk (just compiled it, tested only the demos, ...) Remarks: Everythink you think is relevant.