General information

Warnings and known bugs

• For the gcc compilers of 2.8.1 version or higher there is a specific problem on Solaris platforms with the Sun X-libraries. After you run the configure script, you may have to modify the Make.include to replace the "-I/usr/openwin/include" compiling option with "-isystem /usr/openwin/include".

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 Solaris, 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
  
  
  CVS checkout DataViewer
  
  The CVS version of DataViewer is surely the most up-to-date one.
  
  
• Run the configure script with the --without-Mesa option:
  
  
  configure --without-Mesa