Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Configuring the source code.

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Haris,

> I installed t4k_common at the default location as I could not get the
> above problem fixed.
>
> Then for installing tuxmath, I did "./configure
> --prefix=~/tuxmath/builds/tuxmath?"
>
> The Makefile was generated and I followed it by "make" and "make install".
>
> Now in my ~/tuxmath/builds/tuxmath/ folder, I have 'bin' and 'share'.
> Hope this has completed the installation. However, when I ran the
> command "tuxmath" from my home folder, it said "The program tuxmath is
> not installed".

If you install binaries to non-standard locations, you have to add
them to your $PATH.  e.g. for a single login, do
"PATH=$PATH:~/tuxmath/builds".  To get it to work all time, you need
to add it to your .bash_profile, e.g.:

PATH=$PATH:~/tuxmath/builds
export PATH

This is pretty standard unix stuff, not really a tuxmath-specific issue.

> I went to the folder ~/tuxmath/builds/tuxmath/bin and tried ./tuxmath
> But then I got the following error:
>
> Initializing Tux4Kids-Common 0.1.1
> load_image(): ERROR could not load required graphics file menu/stop.svg
> SDL: SDL_RWFromFile(): No file or no mode specified

OK, this could be a bug in our code - t4k_common has a few data files
in addition to the library code itself that get used by tuxmath, so it
sounds like tuxmath can't find the above file.  I'll have to try to
reproduce your setup on my computer to figure out what is going on.

Unless your goal is to help test non-standard install paths, I'd
suggest just using the default prefix.

Best,

-- 
David Bruce

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