Re: Doubt about plotting on MAC OS X Catalina

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

Hi Antonio,

For X11 and friend to work you need two different things:

1. header files, e.g. xcb.h, Xlib.h, etc.
2. library files, e.g. libxcb.so.1, libX11.so.6, etc.

These days libraries are often shipped in two different packages: one that
contains only the (shared) libraries and the other package contains the
corresponding header files. That second packages normally ends with "-dev".

For example (output from aptitude search libx11):

i   libx11-6                        - X11 client-side library
i   libx11-dev                      - X11 client-side library (development headers)

In your case the ./configure script cannot find the header files which means that either the  the -dev package
was not installed, or they were installed in an unusual place. In the latter case you can
tell ./configure where else to look, for example:

CXXFLAGS = -I /usr/somewhere_else ./configure [other configure options...]

Best Regards,
Jürgen Sauermann

On 11/28/19 12:33 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:

Hi i will check,

The compilation ended, and done sudo make install, but I still have the same problem 

      ⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5

SYNTAX ERROR+

∩      ⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5

      ^

      )MORE

⎕PLOT is not available because one or more of its build prerequisites (in

particular libX11.so) was missing, or because it was explicitly

 disabled in ./configure.

But different from the first one, it was no libxcb library was found, I suspect that at this point I also need to change something in the configure in order to compile with X11

Which I get:

checking xcb/xcb.h usability... no

checking xcb/xcb.h presence... no

checking for xcb/xcb.h... no

checking X11/Xlib.h usability... no

checking X11/Xlib.h presence... no

checking for X11/Xlib.h... no

checking X11/Xlib-xcb.h usability... no

checking X11/Xlib-xcb.h presence... no

checking for X11/Xlib-xcb.h... no

checking X11/Xutil.h usability... no

checking X11/Xutil.h presence... no

checking for X11/Xutil.h... no

Thanks for your help

El 28 nov 2019, a las 12:22, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <address@hidden> escribió:

Hi again,

another thing that you may want to check is that your config.h (which is
generated by ./configure) contains the following lines:

/* Enable GNU extensions on systems that have them.  */
#ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
# define _GNU_SOURCE 1
#endif

Best Regards,
Jürgen

On 11/28/19 12:11 PM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote:

Hi Antonio,

that seems to be an incompatibility between the commonly used libs and the Apple libs.
Nothing that I could (or should) do anything about in GNU APL. As far as I can see you could
probably remove the  POLLRDHUP without much harm so that the offending line reads:

pfd.events = POLLIN;

Best Regards,
Jürgen

On 11/28/19 11:58 AM, Antonio Juan wrote:

Hi thanks, I thinks that will be important to put the output of this things:

➜ svn co http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk gnu-apl

...

...

A    gnu-apl/install-sh

Checked out revision 1206.

➜ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gtk+/2.24.32_3/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.16.0_2/lib/pkgconfig

➜ ./configure

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables...

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/local/bin/ggrep

checking for egrep... /usr/local/bin/ggrep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

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checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking minix/config.h usability... no

checking minix/config.h presence... no

checking for minix/config.h... no

checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/local/bin/gmkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

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checking for style of include used by make... GNU

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checking whether the gcc linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin19.0.0 dyld

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checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E

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checking if the linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no

checking whether the g++ linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fno-common -DPIC

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checking whether the g++ linker (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin19.0.0 dyld

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes

checking dependency style of g++... (cached) gcc3

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes

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cat: /include/sqlite3.h: No such file or directory

./configure: line 18214: test: !=: unary operator expected

configure: WARNING: Cannot find SQLITE_VERSION macro in sqlite3.h header to retrieve SQLite version!

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checking whether internal performance counters shall be enabled)... no

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configure: creating ./config.status

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config.status: creating wslib5/iso-apl-cf/Makefile

config.status: creating config.h

config.status: executing depfiles commands

config.status: executing libtool commands

configure: creating ./src//buildtag.hh

*** svnversion not installed: keeping old buildtag

configure: creating ./src/makefile.h

configure: creating ./src/configure_args.cc

configure: saving configure options in ./configure_options

➜ make

...

After long long output

...

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -I sql -Werror      -g -O2 -MT apl-Quad_GTK.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/apl-Quad_GTK.Tpo -c -o apl-Quad_GTK.o `test -f 'Quad_GTK.cc' || echo './'`Quad_GTK.cc

Quad_GTK.cc:393:35: error: use of undeclared identifier 'POLLRDHUP'

         fds[w].events = POLLIN | POLLRDHUP;

                                  ^

Quad_GTK.cc:421:26: error: use of undeclared identifier 'POLLRDHUP'

   pfd.events = POLLIN | POLLRDHUP;

                         ^

2 errors generated.

make[3]: *** [apl-Quad_GTK.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make: *** [all] Error 2

I think that this could help, thanks for all your time

Sincerely,

Toni

El 28 nov 2019, a las 11:24, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <address@hidden> escribió:

Hi Antonio,

I fixed the -Wreturn-type warning  in SVN 1206.

Best Regards,
Jürgen Sauermann

On 11/28/19 10:31 AM, Antonio Juan wrote:

Thanks for your replies I'm using OSX Catalina 10.15.1,

Like I commented, I have gnu-apl installed with homebrew and it works well except for the Plot feature.

So it was a problem with X11 and GTK, for the X11 Lib I need Xquartz from https://www.xquartz.org/

This puts the X11 on /opt/X11, I also have this strange behavior, that I asked on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59072106/do-not-understanig-mac-osx-x11

Then I managed to Install Gtk with home-brew I installed gtk+ and gtk+3, like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20114598/1900722

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig

brew info gtk+3

gtk+3: stable 3.24.12 (bottled)

brew info gtk

gtk+: stable 2.24.32 (bottled), HEAD

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20098862/how-to-install-gtk-on-osx-for-use-with-g-gcc-compiler

Anf during make I get this error:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -I sql -Werror      -g -O2 -MT apl-Quad_PLOT.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/apl-Quad_PLOT.Tpo -c -o apl-Quad_PLOT.o `test -f 'Quad_PLOT.cc' || echo './'`Quad_PLOT.cc

Quad_PLOT.cc:79:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function

      [-Werror,-Wreturn-type]

}

^

1 error generated.

make[3]: *** [apl-Quad_PLOT.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make: *** [all] Error 2

I hope that I could explain it.

El 27 nov 2019, a las 16:48, Peter Teeson <address@hidden> escribió:

Hi:

The Macintosh operating system used to be called OS X 

Then it was renamed macOS. That was around the time Apple created a spin off iOS for their mobile devices.

So these days people refer to the hardware as Macs (both desktop and laptop)

And iPhone, iPad, iWatch for their mobile devices.

What make of Mac do you have? What version of macOS?

If you have questions I will try to help.

Peter

On Nov 27, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote:

Hi,

there is a very nice description of how to install GNU APL on Macintosh written
by Peter Teeson. You can find in in the HOWTOs directory.

I don't know if Macintosh uses OSX, but Peters document is anyhow worthwhile reading.

BTW I have updated the ⎕PLOT error message to be more specific as to which library is missing.

Best Rgeards,
Jürgen Sauermann

On 11/27/19 12:32 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:

Thanks; I need to completely read the GNU-APL DOC, sorry about that

You are right the problem is with the libxcb.

⎕plot 1 2 3 4 5

SYNTAX ERROR+

      ⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5

      ^

      )MORE

⎕PLOT is not available because either no libxcb library was found on this

system when GNU APL was compiled, or because it was disabled in ./configure.

Exist a tutorials for building gnu-apl in OSX

Thanks for your time

Toni 

El 26 nov 2019, a las 17:27, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <address@hidden> escribió:

Hi Toni,

the + character after SYNTAX ERROR (or any other APL error) indicates that there
is more information available regarding that error. The additional information
can be displayed with command )MORE.

I suspect that in this particular case libraries needed for plotting (essentially libX11.so,
libxcb.so, and libX11-xcb.so) were missing on the platform where GNU APL was compiled
(i.e. your own machine if you compiled from source or the build machine of a package if
you installed a binary package).

For ⎕PLOT to work, you may need to compile the interpreter from source with the required
X libraries installed beforehand.

Best Regards,
Jürgen Sauermann

On 11/26/19 2:27 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:

Thanks for this awesome software. I have installed gnu plot 1.8 from brew package. It works well, and good integration with emacs. So it is a good environment for learning APL.

The only think is that when I try to plot I always get the following error:

       ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
SYNTAX ERROR+
      ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
      ^

I do not see anywhere, if is needed to load a workspace, or the needed for some environment configuration during installation. So really I do not know how to proceed.

Thanks for your time

Toni