Re: Problem installing OpenInventor on O2

[Gerd Hesina <hesina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:05 05.03.01 +0100, Sebastien Carpentier wrote:
> >Inventor uses the famous jpeglib on IRIX, Linux and Windows ;-)
> >The first cvs snapshots used an very old version of jpeglib which was 
> included
> >in the so directory of inventor.
>
> Thanks, the problem has been fix.
>
> I succeed to install inventor except for one point : the FL library.
> The problem is that I use compilation option related to my O2
> configuration : -mip4 and -n32.
>
> But in the inventor tar we don't have the source of the IFL.
> We got only libFL.a which seem to be o32.
> So i've got a compilation message error saying that it expect o32 stuff.
> Is it possible to get a n32 version of libFL.a or the source or do I have
> to recompile all inventor using o32 mips1 option, or is there a compilator
> option to link a mix of n32 and o32 library ?

Uh-oh.
libFL.a is a Linux lib.
libFL is a font library from SGI. It's not open-sourced. Therefore they
provide only a binary version for Linux and Solaris/Sparc.
(On windows I've used a replacement lib and a wrapper from Ang Bodi)
On Irix you don't need an extra distribution of this lib because it's part 
of irix.
see /usr/lib32/libFL.so
If it is not installed grab your irix installation cds and install
eoe.sw.gfx.

> I've got another problem which is a bit out of topic in this mailing list.
> The application I try to compile use volumizer and inventor but also a library
> called IFL. I find the IFL library for run time environement on the sgi 
> site but
> if I want to compile this application I need to get the API/SDK.
> Do you know where I can get it ?

IFL is the image format library.
It's part of ifl_eoe.sw.c++
I expect that you need the header files which are normally located in 
/usr/include/ifl
They are part of ifl_dev.sw.c++

Copied from http://www.sgi.com/products/evaluation/6.x_volumizer_1.2/ :
If you don't already have this installed, IRIX 6.2, 6.3 & 6.4 users may 
install it from the IMAGEVISION LIB 3.2 DEV OPTION CD. IRIX 6.5 users may 
install it from the IRIX 6.5 Development Libraries CD.

If you don't have ifl_dev you are stuck.

Cheers,
-g.