[Blocks-development] HOWTO: building Blocks on Linux

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

Ok, heres the latest news, can we put this up on the web page
somewhere?

Blocks V0.15 can be built on Linux by doing the following...

1) edit the following files...

   blocks/blockd/Makefile
   blocks/blockgui/Makefile

and change the line which says...

LINKEXE=$(CC) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJ) $(LIB)

to read...

LINKEXE=$(CXX) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJ) $(LIB)

and also remove the "-lnsl -lsocket" from the LIB= line.

2) vi blocks/libsock/sock.cpp

   change "sigignore(SIGPIPE);" to say "signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_IGN);"

(NOTE: this step may not be necessary)

3) in the 'blocks' directory do the following...

make clean; make depend; make

(NOTE: you need 'makedepend' pathed its usually in
       /usr/X11R6/bin or /usr/openwin/bin)

and the resulting binaries should be blocks/blockgui/blockgui
and blocks/blockd/blockd

ttfn

PG.

PS V0.16 will work out of the box as the new Makefiles
   autodetect Solaris and default to Linux.




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