[Visualpython-users] building visual-3.0 on Debian sarge (testing)

[Sanjoy M. <sa...@mr...>]

I'm using 'visual-3.0-20040722.tar.gz'.

The config.log and the resulting top-level Makefile claim the visual
version is 2.9.7, I think because the 'configure' script has these
lines:

  PACKAGE_VERSION='2.9.7'
  PACKAGE_STRING='Visual Python 2.9.7'

Should the version become 3.0.0?

A few updates for the 'INSTALL.txt':

I'm using Debian testing (sarge).  To build visual-3.0 I had to
install xlibmesa-gl-dev and xlibmesa-glu-dev to get 'GL/gl.h' and
'GL/glu.h' (needed when compiling 'cylinder.cpp').  These are the
error lines I saw before I installed those packages:

  xgl.h:22:19: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
  xgl.h:23:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory

Sarge now (4 Dec 2004) has v1.31 of libboost-python-dev so no need to
use python2.2 packages or to forage in Sid.

So the one-shot apt-get line I recommend is:

  apt-get install python2.3-{dev,numeric} g++-3.3 {libboost-python,xlibmesa-gl{,u},gtkglarea5,libgtk1.2}-dev

or with \ to break the long line:

  apt-get install python2.3-{dev,numeric} g++-3.3 \
          {libboost-python,xlibmesa-gl{,u},gtkglarea5,libgtk1.2}-dev

Either is equivalent to:

  apt-get install python2.3-dev python2.3-numeric g++-3.3 \
	  libboost-python-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev \
	  gtkglarea5-dev libgtk1.2-dev

I couldn't compile visual on my 96MB Pentium (586) laptop -- the g++
compile of 'cvisualmodule.cpp' consumed over 150MB of virtual memory
(c++ is an absurd language)!  The cc1plus process got about 2% of the
CPU time while swapping like mad.  I then compiled everything on a
nearby workstation with more memory, but is there any way to reduce
the memory consumption?

-Sanjoy