Re: [Playerstage-users] Running playerv under player-1.3.2

[brian g. <bg...@us...>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Jason Bryant wrote:

> I recently installed Player and Stage v1.3.2 and
> Librtk v2.2.0 in order to use the visualization
> features which are included with the Player
> distribution(playerv and viewertk).  However after
> configuring and installing Player, I noticed that
> playerv is not included in the bin file.  I also tried
> installing previous 1.3.x versions and had the same
> results.  I have read through the documentation that
> comes with the distributions, and could not find
> anything about installing playerv separately.  Did I
> miss something when configuring player for
> installation?  Any help that can be offered would be
> greatly appreciated.
>

hi Jason,

I suspect that playerv was not built, probably because librtk wasn't found
during the configuration (playerv depends on librtk).  Did you install
librtk *first*, and tell Player's configure script where to find it?

By default, Player's configure will look for librtk in /usr/local.  If you
installed librtk somewhere else, say <path>, then you have to pass either
--prefix=<path> or --with-rtk=<path> to Player's configure.

Starting with 1.3.2, Player's configure tells you at the end whether or
not it will build librtk-based components (e.g., playerv).  If it says,
"Player will NOT build RTK-based components." then librtk was not found.

Note that this info applies equally to Stage, which will build without any
GUI frontend (which makes it far less fun to use) if librtk is not found.

        brian.