[openvrml-develop] Building OpenVRML on OpenSuSE 10.2

[Gino v. d. B. <gva...@vi...>]

I'm trying to build OpenVRML 0.16.6 under OpenSuSE 10.2. My problem is 
that the configure script fails with the following message:

configure: error: SpiderMonkey is required for Script node JavaScript 
support.

Obviously I need to install the Mozilla JS engine, however I do not seem 
to be able to find it in the otherwise very complete OpenSuSE 10.2 
distribution. I've tried to build SpiderMonkey from source however the 
makefile fails on the install.  Rather than waste another day on trying 
to fix this I would like  to ask you guys whether it is possible to 
create a config flag for disabling the use of JavaScript an simply  fix 
the configure script. I need OpenVRML for loading  wrl files and I do 
not need to build a full-fledged VRML browser, so I probably can live 
without  script nodes. Alternatively, perhaps the OpenVRML team could 
include the latest SpiderMonkey source in the OpenVRML  distribution. 
This would certainly  save a lot of people from the hassle  of mucking 
about with getting the proper  libs at the proper place.

Also, I would like to use my own renderer and need to translate the 
internal representation from OpenVRML to my own. Are there any examples 
of how this can be done?

Thanks,

Gino