Re: [Mesa3d-dev] static linking of 3.5 on irix

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Eric Plante wrote:
> 
> Hi there all.
> 
> First of all, a big thanks. You are doing something great for the free
> software community.
> 
> In the next few weeks (counting out siggraph en EG CAS), I'll be playing
> quite a bit with mesa, particularly OSmesa; eventually I'd like to have
> it work in 12 bits per channel and have the channel depth specified in
> the creation of the context. But I'm not there yet, I'm starting with
> more modest goals, the first one of which being to get working static
> libs on irix.
> 
> The first thing I stumbled on is that the MesaLib tar will not compile
> without MesaDemos, which contains glut. No problem.
> 
> So, here's my first problem (more to come I promise ;) ). This one is
> irix-specific. It seems that some objects are missing from the libGLU.a.
> Is that possible?
> 
> I tried finding out what is happening, and it seems that
> si-glu/libnurbs/internals/.libs/libNInt is built, and then _extracted_
> (don't ask me why) back into .o's in (..)/.libs/libGLU.lax/libNInt.a/,
> and then selected .o's end up included in the final libGLU.a . It seems
> that some of those are missing, like for instance nurbsinterfac.o.
> 
> I have to say, I instantly admire anyone capable of dealing with
> autoconf, libtool and their likes. They're definately a blessing to the
> end user, but _man_ ... :-)
> 
> Ideas, anyone?
> 
> I have to say all of this is using irix cc, and I will try with gcc. I'm
> doubtful that the problem will be solved though, as the gcc installation
> on irix uses irix's native tools rather than GNU binutils..

Hi Eric,

I've had trouble with configure+make on my IRIX system too.  You might
want to try the "old-style" makefiles instead:

cd Mesa-3.5
cp Makefile.X11 Makefile
make irix6-n32		// irix6-n32-dso would build shared libs

This will actually build the old Mesa GLU 1.1 library since the irix6-n32
config isn't setup for C++ (which the si-glu needs).  But this should at
least get you up and running.

-Brian