DataViewer IRIX Instructions

General information

Whenever the configure script detects both OpenGL and Mesa installed on your computer, it supposes you want to use Mesa, and sets it by default. You must use the --without-Mesa configure option if you do not wish it to happen.

Warnings and known bugs

The configure script may fail due to incompatibilities between versions of the necessary libraries. If this happens, you can copy the Make.include.in to Make.include and modify it by hand for your own configuration. You can either take the Make.include.lcvm.in as an example or contact us for an example of Make.include file.
DataViewer is known to work on Irix up to 6.4 with all the libraries compiled in the -o32 version. We have detected a bug in one of the necessary libraries for the -n32 and possibly higher versions of the system. If DataViewer crashes at runtime, and until we find a way to fix the problem, contact us for a compiled version of DataViewer with the -o32 option.

Installation instructions:

Check that python, tcl and tk packages are installed on your computer, and that python is compiled with the Tkinter option on. For this, you need to edit the Python*/Modules/Setup file and comment out the lines concerning Tkinter. See your local python instructions for more details.
Check that you have a graphical library installed on your computer, like OpenGL or Mesa. For this, you can check the existence of libraries such as libGL.*, or libMesaGL.*.
Download the current.tgz from the distribution page, and decompress it.
Run the configure script and check that the Make.include file has been created and the information it contains is correct. If you need to reconfigure, be sure to delete the config.cache file first.
If the configure script fails, you can download this example of Make.include file for Irix, copy it under the name Make.include in the main directory of DataViewer, and edit it to make sure the information it contains is correct.
Compile DataViewer with the gmake command.
Set the DV environment variable to the path to the directory where DataViewer is installed and run the runme.sh script for a demo. See the user guide for more instructions on this demo.

Instructions for LCVM2 users:

You can either download the current.tgz from the distribution page, and decompress it, or get a CVS copy of DataViewer with the command
The CVS version of DataViewer is surely the most up-to-date one.
Run the configure script with the --without-Mesa option:
Make sure that the -o32 option is present in the compiling and linking commands. The libraries on lcvmsg2 are still compiled with this option.

Dana Vrajitoru dana.vrajitoru@epfl.ch

Last modified: November the 7th, 2000.