Re: [Quickfix-developers] Problem running banzai

[Oren M. <ore...@ya...>]

> 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.

One thing, be careful compiling with gcc 2.9.6. 
Please see the warning on our download page pertaining
to this:
http://quickfix.thoughtworks.com/download.html

There are known problems with this compiler, and known
problems when compiling QuickFIX with it.

> - 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.

Usually problems like this can be resolved by just
running the ./bootstrap script before running
./configure.  Unfortunately the autotools generated
scripts arn't always compatible with every system and
regenerating them is often the bost option.

> - Had to use the notestxml option.  Could not get it
> to see my libxml lib.

This is ussually a result of an incomplete
installation of libxml2.  You may want to check to see
if that installation was done properly.

> - 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.

Hmmm. How did your directory structure end up like
that? The tar file should set up the directory to be
quickfix/include, not quickfix-1.4.0/include.

> - 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 :-(

This would happen if the build script is unable to
detect the presenct of JNI.  Is your JAVA_HOME
environment set up correctly?

> 
> 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!

Don't know the answer to this straight away.  Will
have to investigate this.

> 
> 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?  

Yes, it is.


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