Re: [openvrml-develop] Trouble building OpenVRML 0.18.5

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:35 -0800, Rich Cook wrote: 
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:07 -0800, Rich Cook wrote:
> >> Thanks, my sysadmin has informed me we need an upgrade to glib, they
> >> started rolling gio into glib a couple versions after ours.  Said
> >> upgrade is probably not going to happen, due to institutional
> >> inertia.  :-(
> >
> > Bummer.  Well, the only part that needs this is openvrml-player; so  
> > you
> > can --disable-player when running configure to get past this.
> >
> > Also, I seem to recall that I only used GIO to inspect the MIME type  
> > of
> > local files.  I think it would be trivial to patch that out; your
> > version of GLib might even have some substitute functions. FWIW.
> 
> That sounds promising, however, there is also the GTK dependency on  
> GtkBuilder which is equally at issue for us -- is that a simple patch  
> as well?  :-)

Not nearly as simple; but doable if you're determined.

GtkBuilder replaced libglade, which you can find employed in older
OpenVRML releases (0.17).  I think it would be doable to graft that back
onto OpenVRML 0.18 in place of GtkBuilder.  But we're talking about
hours of work rather than minutes.

> The player would be nice.  We tried freeWRL but it seems to not render  
> accurately from what I can see.  I'd like to have a local viewer for  
> our scientists if possible.  This looks like a nice way to share data  
> with colleagues potentially.

Well, if you can't use newer dependencies, you could try an older
OpenVRML--like 0.17.12.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>