Re: [Swarm-Support] Installing Swarm on CentOS 5.2 AMD64 box

[Gary Polhill]

Thanks very much Marcus!

It now works. I didn't need to use CPU=i386. However, there was some fuss 
trying to use the system's installed 32 bit version of XPM. For some reason, 
libXpm.so was not in /usr/lib, but /usr/lib64 did have libXpm.so. /usr/lib 
contained libXpm.so.4 and libXpm.so.4.11.0 only. So, I had to create a copy of 
/usr/lib in my homespace and symbolically link libXpm.so to libXpm.so.4.11.0. 
With the appropriate configure options, it finally worked.

To compile my model, I had to change an import of space/Object2dDisplay.h to 
space.h--for some reason Object2dDisplay.h did not get installed in the version 
of Swarm I checked out from CVS--I don't know if that is deliberate or not.

I didn't get a crash clicking "Start", by the way. This may be because I 
compiled my own (32 bit) versions of BLT/Tcl/Tk.

Like you, I can compile the x86_64 version of Swarm for Objective-C (especially 
with --non-gui) without problem, and it works fine for my Obj-C model. However, 
I'm working on a project trying to deploy Swarm on the grid, so I was curious 
to see the extra issues that arose in trying to build javaswarm. For grid 
deployment, of course, one would normally expect everything to run in batch 
mode. One thing I haven't tried is building a nongui version of 
javaswarm--mostly because I thought this couldn't be done--but perhaps I am 
wrong? If it were possible, this would cut down the dependencies, of course, 
but maybe javaswarm apps wouldn't work out of the box...

Gary

>>> "Marcus G. Daniels" <address@hidden> 2008-11-02 02:38 >>>
Hi Gary,

I tried building Swarm on Fedora 10 x86_64 but targeting i386.   The 
error you mention, I believe you can fix with setting

CC="gcc -m32" OBJC="gcc -m32"

That is, specify the OBJC variable for `configure' as well.   You may 
also need to pass "CPU=i386" to the toplevel make in order to get avcall 
built.

Doing these things, I get a complete build, but there seem to be other 
problems like crashes upon `Start'.

Fwiw, I do use a straight x86_64 build of Swarm for Objective C without 
trouble.    (It's the forwarding of messages for Java x86_64 that needs 
work,  otherwise it should be ok to use.)

Marcus
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