Re: [Visualpython-users] Compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:44:34 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> I did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on a Windows machine and tried to
> compile Visual. I'm stuck in the configure phase and wonder whether
> someone can help me get unstuck.

What is a "clean install on a Windows machine"? In my books, when installing 
Linux on a box, it's not a Windows box anymore ...

> gtkglextmm depends on gtkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery finds
> okay (/usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4) despite there being nothing in
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig about gtkmm-2.4.
> 
> gtkglextmm also depends on gdkglextmm, which in turn depends on
> gdkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery claims doesn't exist despite
> the existence of /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4 (as with gtkmm, there's nothing
> about gdkmm in /usr/lib/pkgconfig).
>
> So my question is, how does the configure machinery find
> /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4 but not /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4? And what should I
> do to compile the latest source?

Usually the headers are in specific "-dev" packages on Debian/Ubuntu systems, 
as they're not strictly needed for execution, but only for building 
(development). If I search on my system for a libgdkmm header, this is what I 
get:

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include/gdkmmconfig.h
libgtkmm-2.4-dev: /usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include/gdkmmconfig.h

Same with this one:

$ dpkg -S /usr/include/gdkmm-2.4/gdkmm.h
libgtkmm-2.4-dev: /usr/include/gdkmm-2.4/gdkmm.h

So, try installing the package "libgtkmm-2.4-dev".


One thing I often found useful in getting the right packages in was to do an 
"apt-get build-dep <package name>". So in this case "apt-get build-dep python-
visual". This resolved the build dependencies of the python-visual packages as 
it is in the repositories, but as changes were often incremental, most of the 
-dev packages were pulled in this way already, and I've had a whole lot less 
to worry about.

HTH,

Guy

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