Re: OpenInventor Solaris patch && Mac OSX w/ XDarwin

[Kurt Schwehr <kdschwehr@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Thanks Vincent for the solaris patch.  Now I just have to get that sun 
blade in the corner up to speed... never admin'ed solaris before :)
I was just thinking along the lines of an auto generated script for 
configuring OpenInventor while starting a port for Mac OSX with 
XDarwin.  I don't have too many changes to the source, but I could 
easily see that it would be painful with many more architectures.  I'd 
love to have an open inventor that I could point people to and say that 
they just have to do somethin similar to what most gnu tools use, i.e.
  tar xfz oi.tar.gz
  cd oi
  ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-png
  make install

And it would figure out what to change in a clean way.

i'm sure a lot of you have already put much thought into this, but I be 
interested in helping out.
ALSO:  Is anyone out there working or have done a port to Mac 
OSX/Darwin/XDarwin?  I'm working on one at the moment, but I'm having a 
little bit of trouble with the whole shared library business.
Thanks!
-Kurt

> Hi,
>
> i have checked the patches side-side and cant understand the reason for
> the following remaining:
>
> lib/database/include/Inventor/SbTime.h                          N (no
> reason)
> lib/database/src/sb/SbMatrix.c++                                N (no
> reason)
> lib/database/src/so/SoInput.c++                                 N (no
> reason)
> lib/database/src/so/nodes/nurbs/head/mymath.h                   N (no
> reason)
> lib/interaction/src/nodekits/SoInteractionKit.c++               N (no
> reason)
> libSoXt/src/mtlEdit/SoXtMtlEdit.c++                             N (no
> reason)
> libSoXt/src/viewers/SoXtFullVwr.c++                             N (no
> reason)
>
> i'am not sure if they are really required ...
>
> all the other except some minor difference matches with my fixes.
> for the GNUmakefile it have a solution that have no impact on other
> systems.
>
> i think for "make/ivcommondefs" we should add "ivcommondefs.in" and add
> a autogen configure to figure out the location of the tools, install
> prefix,
> location of fonts package and some options for overlay on/off.
> ... if not everone must hack it.
>
> (
>  )imon
>
> "Vincent S. Cojot" wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > It's my first post here so please forgive me if my netiquette isn't 
> > perfect.
> > After browsing through the list archives for a while, I came up with a 
> > patch
> > against inventor-2.1.5-9 that lets one compile it end to end under
> > Solaris/Sparc (tested under Solaris 8 02/02 with gcc 2.95.3).
> >
> > My problem with the patches previously submitted to this list was that
> > nobody came up with a complete set which would make life a little 
> > easier for
> > the average end-user.
> > I integrated all of the posted patches into one big patch, wrote a 
> > README
> > file for Solaris and a build script and I fixed a few things in the 
> > process
> > of compiling the samples. The patch is far from perfect but at least 
> > now, on
> > a Solaris/Sparc box, compiling inventor is as easy as:
> >
> > 1) meeting the software requirements (Software Companion stuff, 
> > Gnome-1.4
> > for freetype, OpenGL).
> > 2) getting inventor-2.1.5-9.src.tar.gz
> > 3) applying the patch
> > 4) cd inventor; ./go.sh.
> >
> > I'm attaching the patch to this e-mail.
> > It is also availble from
> > http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/OpenInventor-2.1.5.9-Solaris.patch.gz
> >
> > I hope this will be useful to others.
> >
> > Portability: I tried to protect all code modifications with __sun__ 
> > but I
> > didn't bother to do that for diffs to GNUmakefiles under 
> > inventor/apps/...
> > The code can thereforce probably be integrated into the main tree but 
> > not
> > the diffs to the makefiles.
> > I will come up with a better patch later on but I'm posting this 
> > preliminary
> > result here. Also, this inventor installs under /usr/local/lib,
> > /usr/local/bin, etc.. a-la-BSD/Linux. :) So far, this build has proven 
> > as
> > reliable as the Linux official build for me.
> >
> > The files that are modified/created are:
> > inventor/README.Solaris
> > inventor/apps/demos/SceneViewer/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/drop/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/gview/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/maze/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/noodle/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/qmorf/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/revo/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/textomatic/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/apps/demos/textomatic/TextWrapper.c++
> > inventor/apps/samples/widgets/GNUmakefile.componentTest
> > inventor/apps/samples/widgets/MyTextureEd.c++
> > inventor/apps/tools/ivview/GNUmakefile
> > inventor/go.sh
> > inventor/lib/database/include/Inventor/SbBasic.h
> > inventor/lib/database/include/Inventor/SbTime.h
> > inventor/lib/database/src/sb/SbMatrix.c++
> > inventor/lib/database/src/so/SoInput.c++
> > inventor/lib/database/src/so/nodes/SoText2.c++
> > inventor/lib/database/src/so/nodes/SoText3.c++
> > inventor/lib/database/src/so/nodes/nurbs/head/mymath.h
> > inventor/lib/interaction/src/nodekits/SoInteractionKit.c++
> > inventor/libSoXt/src/mixedMode/SoXtSlider.c++
> > inventor/libSoXt/src/mtlEdit/SoXtMtlEdit.c++
> > inventor/libSoXt/src/viewers/SoXtFullVwr.c++
> > inventor/make/commondefs
> > inventor/make/commonrules
> > inventor/make/ivcommondefs
> > inventor/make/system
> >
> > The issues that remain are related to text: I am not sure that text 
> > displays
> > correctly or displays at all.. Perhaps a freetype problem.
> >
> > Here is README.Solaris:
> >
> > Small HOWTO written by Vincent S. Cojot <coyote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Compiled on Solaris 8/sparc 02/02 with OpenGL 1.2.3
> > Tested on Ultra5/PGX64 and SunBlade 2000/XVR-1000.
> >
> > It requires the following packages:
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