Re: [ePiX-users] Compilation failing after install

[Jay Belanger]

"Ben Tillman" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone,

Hi.  I was just about to write about what may be the same problem.

> The machine I do most of my latex work on runs windows xp,

Windows xp?  It sounds custom made for ePiX.

> $ epix -v sphere.xp
> epix: Processing sphere.xp:
> epix: /usr/bin/g++ epix-3232/sphere-tmp.cc -w -o epix-3232/sphere -I/usr/local
> /include -L/usr/local/lib/epix -lm -lepix
> epix: WARNING: Compilation of sphere.xp failed

I don't know much about Windows xp.  What file system does it use?

I just started keeping all my work on a usb flash drive, to make it easy
to take between home and office.  Plus I'm a firm believer in the maxim:
keep all your eggs in one basket.
Anyhow, the usb flash drive has the vfat file system, and apparently ePiX
won't work on that filesystem.  ePiX creates symbolic links, and vfat
won't allow that.  I've taken to creating the pictures on my hard drive
(ext3), and then copying them to my work directory.
Is there a way to do the work in place on the usb drive?

> I'm really at a loss here. I can't find any mention of this happening on the
> net, and the error message doesn't seem to give me any indication of what I
> should be looking to fix, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are there symbolic links in windows?  My wild guess is that the file
system doesn't allow symbolic links, and so not only won't ePiX work,
but if Windows doesn't know about symbolic links, it can't tell you
what's wrong.  But it's only a wild guess; I know little about windows.

Jay