Re:Dead GUI-bindings / build errors with octave-fltk and octave-gtk

[Muthiah Annamalai]

>    1. Dead GUI-bindings / build errors with octave-fltk and
>       octave-gtk (Andreas Romeyke)
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> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:22:16 +0100
> From: Andreas Romeyke <address@hidden>
> Subject: Dead GUI-bindings / build errors with octave-fltk and
>         octave-gtk
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> Hi all,
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> because someone pointed me to the fltk- and gtk-bindings of Octave at
> http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net/octave-fltk/
>
> the stuff does not compile at my environment. The site seems to be dead.
>
> Is there anyone working on any GUI-bindings of  Octave? Or could me
> anyone point me how to compile these tarballs with actual Octave 2.9.9?
>
> By compiling octave-gtk-0.3.1 I got this message:
>
> julia:/SCR/ext_src/octave-gtk-0.3.1$ make
> Making all in glib
> make[1]: Entering directory `/SCR/ext_src/octave-gtk-0.3.1/glib'
> cp defs.py ../codegen/AutoGenDefs.py
> ../codegen/codegen.py ./glib.overrides ./std.header > glib.cpp 2>/dev/null
> g++ -I/usr/include/octave-2.9.9 -I/usr/include/octave-2.9.9/octave/
> - -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include
> - -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
> - -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> - -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12    -Wall -ggdb  -c
> - -lxml2 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm
> - -lpangocairo-1.0 -lfontconfig -lXext -lXrender -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr
> - -lXcursor -lXfixes -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lX11 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0
> - -ldl -lglib-2.0   glib.cpp -o glib.o
> glib.cpp: In function 'octave_value_list Fglib(const octave_value_list&,
> int)':
> glib.cpp:8299: error: 'load' is not a member of 'octave_dynamic_loader'
> glib.cpp:8300: error: 'load' is not a member of 'octave_dynamic_loader'
> glib.cpp:8301: error: 'load' is not a member of 'octave_dynamic_loader'
>
>
> By trying to compile octave-fltk-0.6.1.tar.gz following instructions from
> http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net/octave-fltk/  the make process fails
> with:
>
>     ./autogen.sh
>     PATH=/SCR/octave_local/bin/:$PATH ./configure --prefix
> /SCR/octave_local/
>     make
>
> The Make-process fails with this error-message:
>
>     julia:/SCR/ext_src/octave-fltk-0.6.1$ make
>     make[1]: Entering directory `/SCR/ext_src/octave-fltk-0.6.1'
>     cd . && autoheader
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/SCR/ext_src/octave-fltk-0.6.1'
>     cd . \
>               && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=[config.h] \
>                  /bin/sh ./config.status
>     config.status: error: cannot find input file: [config.h].in
>     make: *** [stamp-h] Fehler 1
>
> Do you have any hints?
>
> Bye Andreas
>
> - --
> Software Developer / Dipl. Inform. (FH)
> Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
> Department of Psychology
> Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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The tarballs donot build for several reasons among which
1. Octave 2.9.x API has changed including
   octave_dynamic_loader::load() to load_oct()
2. Built in variables deprecated
3. Im being lazy

So sorry for the trouble.
These things will take time to fix, and if nobody is going to
do them, then you have no choice to wait for me.

Well, I wouldnt agree with dead, maybe hibernate
is better.

Thanks & Regards,
Muthu