[ibsimu-forum] Upgrade to use GTK3

[Kalvas T. <tan...@jy...>]

Dear users,

The Gnome Toolkit (gtk) has progressed to version 3 already some time ago. IBSimu has been dependent on the old version 2. On some computers it has been difficult to install the old version, which is the reason why the gtk3 branch of ibsimu was created. Unfortunately gtk3 was not available for windows for a long time. Therefore the gtk3 capability was kept as a separate branch.

Now the gtk3 package is now available for windows. It can be downloaded on the gtk website at http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php

Because of this I have merged the gtk3 into the new_solver branch. This means that you will need to have gtk3 to run the new_solver the recent (and future) ibsimu versions.

If gtk3 is not available on your computer (configure has autodetection), the ibsimu library will be compiled without gtk-dependent plotting capabilities. Therefore you can use ibsimu on a computation clusters with old software to do the calculation and then do the plotting on a personal workstation. On your personal computers where you want to do interactive plotting, you will need to install gtk3 development files if you don't have it already.

Also the OpenGL package needs to be compatible with gtk3. The library you need is Gtkglext-3.0. If the library is not available the software rendering will be used (same capabilities, but slower). The Gtkglext-3.0 is under work. The most recent version can be acquired with git:

git clone https://gitorious.org/gtkglext3/gtkglext3

Linux distrubutions may have packaged versions of it.

Taneli

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