[gts-general] problems with compilation of gtsview

[Stephane P. <s.p...@ni...>]

Hi Erik,

Erik Andresen writes:
 > At first gts fails to compile in RedHat 7.3 and 8.0, only after adding 
 > the header file "zutil.h" to src/isotetra.c and tools/stl2gts.c it 
 > compiles.

Which version of GTS are you using?

 > Next I tried to compile gtsview such that I could visulize the results 
 > from the example programs.
 > However, when running ./configure it fails because GTKGL Area is 
 > missing. It tells that the
 > latest version of GTKGL Area "should be available from 
 > http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/."
 > However its not, but there is a pointer to cvs.gnome.org. At first I 
 > looked for a stable version of gtkglarea,
 > and found the source for gtkglarea-1.2.2 somewhere. After compiling and 
 > installing this library the
 > configure program of gtsview still fails with "checking for gdk_gl_query 
 > in -lgtkgl... no". I think
 > Rob McDonald in May this year reported about the same problem. 
 > Unfortunately there is no reply and
 > I don't know if / how he succeeded in compiling gtsview.  

gtkglarea-1.2.3 works fine on my RedHat 7.3 system.

 > In short: Could someone, who have done this resently, please tell where 
 > to find a working version of gtkglarea,
 > how to download it (if it is from a cvs repository) and how to compile 
 > it. Perhaps that could also be included in
 > the README file for gtsview.

a google search on

gtkglarea-1.2.3.tar.gz

returns 43 sites. Of which (the first one)

http://www.lunar-linux.com/lunar/mirrors/

Hope this helps,

Stephane