Anyone running non-Linux based unices?

[flap]

I've written a program that I could do with testing on non-Linux systems e.g. BSD, Solaris, whatever. I have no idea whether it will compile on any other platforms, so would be interested to see if it does.

It's just an animated character that sits on your desktop and listens for news broadcast from a server online, though that's not really important. I don't need the program tested, I just need to know if it will build at all.

If you have X + gtk installed, and would be interested in helping, just say and I'll put the source tarball online somewhere. It's only about 500k.

[Laukev7]

I have FreeBSD in my computer, and I would be glad to test your application. I also have the Cygwin environment in Windows 2000, in the unlikely case you would actually want to port your app to Windows.

Which version of GTK does it support?

[billy_gates]

I have OSX, just finished installing gtk 2.

give me that and I'll see if it works.

[flap]

Thanks.

It's GTK 1.2. Obviously you'll need the relevant GTK devel package installed.

http://www.geocities.com/lbintford/desktopdavey-0.10.tar.gz

You'll have to copy + paste that link to get it to work.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

[billy_gates]

here is wut happened with me:
I had to install gawk imlib gtk 1.2 and i made some ln -s links cus some of the folders it wanted were in different places.

after that it configured and made and installed with no errors.

typing desktopdavey said no command
typing /usr/local/bin/desktopdavey worked.

however it loaded a white box and the terminal kept saying how imlib could not load the png files?
I checked and the png files are OK, they work in Preview.  something is wrong with imlib.
the imlib version is 1.9.14-3
if that helps any.

[Laukev7]

I just compiled your app, and it works perfectly on FreeBSD.

Nice character, BTW. Did you make it yourself?

Edit: Oh, you just took it from the website.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7: Defender of Canada ]

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
here is wut happened with me:
I had to install gawk imlib gtk 1.2 and i made some ln -s links cus some of the folders it wanted were in different places.

after that it configured and made and installed with no errors.

typing desktopdavey said no command
typing /usr/local/bin/desktopdavey worked.

however it loaded a white box and the terminal kept saying how imlib could not load the png files?
I checked and the png files are OK, they work in Preview.  something is wrong with imlib.
the imlib version is 1.9.14-3
if that helps any.

This is on OSX? I never expected it to compile on that. Are you running X?

I'm surprised it didn't work with that version of imlib; mine's 1.9.13. Would you mind posting the exact error message you got? I'll have a look online to see if I can find out what the problem is.

I'm guessing /usr/local/bin/ should be in your path but isn't.

Edit: Do you have libpng installed? Maybe that's the problem.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7: Defender of Canada:
I just compiled your app, and it works perfectly on FreeBSD.

Nice character, BTW. Did you make it yourself?

Edit: Oh, you just took it from the website.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7: Defender of Canada ]

Actually I got the images from the webdesign company who did the site and the windows version of this program.


Thanks, both of you.

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by flap:


This is on OSX? I never expected it to compile on that. Are you running X?

I'm surprised it didn't work with that version of imlib; mine's 1.9.13. Would you mind posting the exact error message you got? I'll have a look online to see if I can find out what the problem is.

I'm guessing /usr/local/bin/ should be in your path but isn't.

Edit: Do you have libpng installed? Maybe that's the problem.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

the exact error is:

Code: [Select]

here is a screenshot:
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/desktopdavey.jpg

the white box next to xterm is the desktopdavey window.
and the finder shows the lib files that it knows of, it wanted the libs at /usr/local/lib but fink puts them in /sw/lib so I did an ln -s.

I didn't have libpng installed, but even after I did I got the same error.

[solo]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:

Code: [Select]

here is a screenshot:
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/desktopdavey.jpg

the white box next to xterm is the desktopdavey window.
and the finder shows the lib files that it knows of, it wanted the libs at /usr/local/lib but fink puts them in /sw/lib so I did an ln -s.

I didn't have libpng installed, but even after I did I got the same error.[/b]

im pretty sure you have to reconfigure and recompile imlib. it didnt link against libpng when you compiled it, so it cant get it. unless imlib does it dynamically...

[billy_gates]

Code: [Select]

here is a screenshot:
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/desktopdavey.jpg

the white box next to xterm is the desktopdavey window.
and the finder shows the lib files that it knows of, it wanted the libs at /usr/local/lib but fink puts them in /sw/lib so I did an ln -s.

I didn't have libpng installed, but even after I did I got the same error.[/qb]<hr></blockquote>

im pretty sure you have to reconfigure and recompile imlib. it didnt link against libpng when you compiled it, so it cant get it. unless imlib does it dynamically...[/QB]<hr></blockquote>

tried that... same error

*edit*
here is a list of all of the packages I have installed via Fink:
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/packages.jpg

is there anything else I need for it that maybe it doesn't check for when it configures and compiles?

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: jeffberg: Mac Capitalist ]

[flap]

I had a look online and a few people seem to have had this problem for different reasons.

The guy in this thread seems to have fixed it by rebuilding all of his packages that were linked against an old version of libpng.

[billy_gates]

I never built any of them... they were binaries...  Should I try to compile them from source... its not that hard in Fink.

also for anyone who thinks OSX can't run linux apps well...
here is a screenshot of all of the default apps that come with panther:
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/x11.jpg
they are running in apple's x11, so they work perfectly with aqua apps.  And Expos

[flap]

I have no idea if that would make any difference to be honest.

Thanks for trying anyway.

[Faust]

I have access to Solaris 8 and will have access to OpenBSD (3.3 ish) soon.  Want me to test em there?

edit1 : if so could you email it to me at u2564793 at anu . edu  .  au?  I probably wont check back here often enough to see your reply.

edit2 : please attach the actual file too if possible, tgz'ed would be nice.  Also the BSD system will be sparc architecture so not exactly standard x86 testing.  

ps:  there are spam filters in place and I do know how to "roll my own" so don't bother random troll types.    

[ September 01, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[ September 01, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]