[Quickfix-developers] Problem running banzai

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Hi,

Firstly thanks for quickfix!  I am very interested in FIX and I can't wait to
try it out!

I am just getting to learn more about quickfix.  I have built it
(quickfix-1.4.0) on Linux (RedhLinux version 2.4.9-e.8enterprise
(bhc...@da...) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2
2.96-108.1)) using gcc 2.95.3 and  both java 1.3.1 and 1.4.
It works fine.  I am at least able to fire up the examples, though I have not
had yet a chance to really go through them.

A couple of points:

I had difficulty building (probably my ignorance!).  These is what I had to do
to get it all to compile:

- had to set the LTCONFIG_VERSION env variable to 3.??? (can't remember by
heart, I will look it up).  I had never used libtool, etc, so it took me a while
to figure this out.
- Had to use the notestxml option.  Could not get it to see my libxml lib.
- Used the STLPort
- Had to modify some makefiles (ie. executor/C++/Makefile) to see the include
and lib dirs for quickfix (basically to add -Ixxx/quickfix-1.4.0/include) etc.
- Had to build the src/java directory separately, i.e., it was not built during
the main make.  Threw me off trying to build the samples first :-(

Otherwise, great stuff!

I enclose the single nasty problem I could not resolve, ie, whenever I run the
run_banzai script I get the sessions showing up on the console, the gui's main
frame shows up blank and then an fatal jni execption, whose log I enclose.  This
did not happen when I ran the run_executor_java script!

I would be gratefull if you could spare it a glance.

I have several questions about the architecture of quickfix (ie threading,
resilience (I have seen some mails in the archive about it and I am digesting
them), administration etc).  Is this the right forum to ask them?  

I send you my best regards and many thanks.

David