[PD] uh oh... more dumb pd/gem linux questins

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Thu Jun 30 09:37:30 CEST 2005


David Kendall wrote:
> Hello Everyone
> 
> So, after all the fussm the other day about compiling Pd on Fedra Core 4,
> I fonally managed to get Pd working. I am not sure I remember how I did
> it, but it involved a somhat intuitive, somewhat logical shifting of
> directories containing the relevant .h files.
> 
> Now I want to compile GEM to run with Pd on Linux (yikes!), and I expect
> plenty of fudging around, to make sure that all the proper libraries are
> installed &c. I do have a simple question that I hope will speed up the
> compilation process, though. When the GemLibs documentation says:
> 
>   put the GemLibs near your Gem-src path.
>   something like:
> 	<src>/GemLibs/
> 	<src>/gem-<version>/src
> 
> ... then, by "Gem-src path", do they mean the location within the Pd
> directory where the source code for GEM resides? (i.e.
> /home/david/pd/extra/gem/src) Or would the GemLibs source reside in a
> location closer to the libraries upon which gem/pd are dependent? (i.e.
> /lib/src/GemLibs)

it doesn't need to be somewhere near pd (though m_pd.h should be in an 
accesible path, like /usr/local/include or the like)

what i meant in the docs is:
if GemLibs are here: /path/to/wherever/GemLibs/
then Gem's config.h-file should be here: 
/path/to/wherever/Gem/src/Base/config.h
(or, alternatively, if the gem-sources come with version-number)
/path/to/wherever/gem-0.90/src/Base/config.h


anyhow, it might well be that the GemLibs are not needed altogether on 
your distribution (i'm no specialist with fedora)

provided by GemLibs are following libraries:
  libjpeg
  libtiff
  GLTT + freetype
but all of them are most probably outdated

if it is an option for you, i would try to install (at least) the 
following development-packages from your distribution (probably the 
names are not 100% correct)
  libjpeg-devel
  libtiff-devel
  libftgl-devel + freetype2-devel

hint: try to not use GLTT, but rather FTGL!

hint: if you are using the CVS-version of Gem (i'd recommend this), you 
can additionally use ImageMagick++-devel AND all of the image-libraries 
(jpeg, tiff, imagemagick) are _optional_ (this is: Gem will still 
compile and run (with limited functionality though) if you don't have 
any or one of this libraries)

please report back which packages did work for you.




mfg.asd.r
IOhannes




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