[clug-talk] BRLCad

[Neil Bower]

On Sat January 8 2005 22:41, Shawn wrote:
> Well, I got the thing compiled, but with some problems - probably due to my
> lack of knowledge than the package itself.
>
> The first problem was mentioned in an earlier email - the ncurses-devel
> package had to be installed.  The second problem was that one of the
> sub-packages still couldn't see ncurses-devel and I had to add "-lncurse"
> to the LIBS variable of it's make file before it would compile.  After
> that, the make routine reported that ECHO@ was an invalid command and
> terminated.  But running make again didn't see this.  "make install"
> proceeded, but also reported that ECHO@ was an invalid command.
>
> The benchmarks ran fine.
>

This happened to me as well. I'm running it on Mandrake 10.1 Download

> So, I checked out the manual at
> http://brlcad.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED.pdf, and tried to run the
> "mged" program.  oops, can't find it.  It's not under the source folder, or
> under the installation directory.  It just doesn't seem to exist.  

You will need to do one of three things:

1) Add to your path the directory where the program resides 
"/usr/brlcad/ia32/bin"

2)Run the program from it's location "/usr/brlcad/ia32/bin/mged"

3) Create a sym link in an appropiate directory back to the executable. I 
placed mine as such:
"ln -s /usr/brlcad/ia32/bin/mged /usr/bin/mged"

The above are assuming that you had used the --prefix=/usr/brlcad/ia32 when 
you performed the configure.

Hope this helps.

I have managed to get their GUI running, but that's as far as I have gotten so 
far.

Neil
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