octave-maintainers
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: FTGL dependency on Mac OS X (was: new snapshot?)


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: FTGL dependency on Mac OS X (was: new snapshot?)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:03:34 +0200

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Shai Ayal wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On  9-Feb-2009, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> | On 2/6/09 address@hidden wrote:
>>>> | >      +. Graphics:
>>>> | >       + Refactor base_properties
>>>> | >       + Specific types for properties with improved property value
>>>> | >         checking
>>>> | >       + Implement the addprops function allow additional properties
>>>> | >         to objects
>>>> | >       + add the hggroup object that has no fixed properties for use
>>>> | >         by barseries, etc.
>>>> | >       + Add callback DeleteFcn/CreateFcn to objects
>>>> | >       + Allow listener functions to be added to objects
>>>> | >       + Clean separation of backend from property database
>>>> | >       + Implement experimental backend based on OpenGL and GUI
>>>> | >         toolkit
>>>> | | I have been interested for some time now to hack around with the new
>>>> | OpenGL backend.  However, the FTGL text dependency was not detected |
>>>> properly on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11).  After a recent mercurial update, |
>>>> this
>>>> problem still exists:
>>>> | | configure: WARNING: "FTGL library not found. Native renderer will
>>>> not
>>>> | have on-screen text"
>>>> | configure: WARNING:
>>>> | configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile
>>>> native
>>>> | configure: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native
>>>> graphics
>>>> | configure: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be
>>>> able
>>>> | configure: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands
>>>> | configure: WARNING:
>>>> | | I do have ftgl-2.1.2 installed via Macports.  Anyway, it would be
>>>> nice
>>>> | if this could be resolved before the next snapshot.  I remember quite
>>>> a |
>>>> long thread about this problem some time ago, but I don't remember what
>>>> |
>>>> the conclusion was.  I am willing to help debug if someone can suggest |
>>>> something for me to try.
>>>>
>>>> It's unlikely to be resolved unless it's reported, and this is the
>>>> first I'ver heard of the problem in quite some time as I thought we
>>>> fixed it.
>>>>
>>>> You could start by showing the relevant part of config.log, so we
>>>> could see why the test fails.
>>>>
>>>> As I recall, I used to have to add
>>>>
>>>>  -I/usr/include/freetype2
>>>>
>>>> to CPPFLAGS on my system when running configure, but I think we fixed
>>>> that problem as it no longer seems to be required.
>>>>
>>> Here is what seems to be the FTGL test in config.log:
>>>
>>> configure:12370: checking FTGL/ftgl.h usability
>>> configure:12387: g++ -c -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp >&5
>>> configure:12394: $? = 0
>>> configure:12408: result: yes
>>> configure:12412: checking FTGL/ftgl.h presence
>>> configure:12427: g++ -E  -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2
>>> -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp
>>> configure:12434: $? = 0
>>> configure:12448: result: yes
>>> configure:12476: checking for FTGL/ftgl.h
>>> configure:12485: result: yes
>>> configure:12659: checking for FTGLTextureFont in -lftgl
>>> configure:12699: g++ -o conftest -I/usr/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include  -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
>>> -L/opt/local/lib -lmetis conftest.cpp -lhdf5 -lz -lm  -Wl,-framework
>>> -Wl,Carbon -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype -lz
>>> -Wl,-framework,CoreServices -Wl,-framework,ApplicationServices -lftgl >&5
>>> conftest.cpp: In function 'int main()':
>>> conftest.cpp:81: error: 'FTGLTextureFont' was not declared in this scope
>>> conftest.cpp:81: error: expected `;' before 'font'
>>> configure:12706: $? = 1
>>> configure: failed program was:
>>> | /* confdefs.h.  */
>
> <snip>
>>>
>>> | }
>>> configure:12731: result: no
>>>
>>>
>> It looks like you have HAVE_FTGL_FTGL_H but not HAVE_FTGL_UPPERCASE,
>> so only FTGL/ftgl.h gets included, and not any header with the
>> FTGLTextureFont.
>>
>> can you please post the output of
>> grep FTGLTextureFont /usr/include/FTGL/*
>>
>> (assuming the normal include sir is /usr/include)
>>
>
> Sure.  Here is what I get:
>
> $ cd /opt/local/include/FTGL/
> $ grep FTGLTextureFont *
> FTGLTextureFont.h:#ifndef     __FTGLTextureFont__
> FTGLTextureFont.h:#define     __FTGLTextureFont__
> FTGLTextureFont.h: * FTGLTextureFont is a specialisation of the FTFont class
> for handling
> FTGLTextureFont.h:class  FTGL_EXPORT FTGLTextureFont : public FTFont
> FTGLTextureFont.h:        FTGLTextureFont( const char* fontFilePath);
> FTGLTextureFont.h:        FTGLTextureFont( const unsigned char
> *pBufferBytes, size_t bufferSizeInBytes);
> FTGLTextureFont.h:        virtual ~FTGLTextureFont();
> FTGLTextureFont.h:#endif // __FTGLTextureFont__
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>

Does the attached changeset help?
It's an "empirical" patch in the sense that I do not really understand
all of the cases in this #ifdef, but should do the right thing for
Jonathan

Shai

Attachment: FTGL
Description: Binary data


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]