Re: [ePiX-users] Compilation failing after install

[Jay Belanger]

"Ben Tillman" <address@hidden> writes:
...
>     1. (a) Create a symbolic link.
>    
>        % ln -s sphere.xp sphere.cc
>    
>        (b) If (a) fails, make a copy with recognizable extension.
>    
>        % cp sphere.xp sphere.cc
>    
>     2. Compile and link.
>    
>        % /usr/bin/g++ sphere.cc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib/epix -lm
>     -lepix
...
> Both commands work, which is great news. Thanks! Unfortunately, the output
> file isn't recognisable by gv or elaps.

The output should be an executable, which when executed produces the
eepic file.

> Here is the output of ls -la in case these file sizes look abnormal:
>
> $ ls -la sp*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Ben None       9 Dec  2 15:49 sphere.cc -> sphere.xp
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Ben None 3911576 Dec  2 16:17 sphere.eepic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Ben None    1228 Aug  2 05:43 sphere.xp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Ben None   31961 Dec  2 16:16 sphere_eepic.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Ben None     195 Dec  2 10:58 sphere_xp.log

There error message you reported comes when the executable isn't
created, so I wonder where the eepic file came from.

Jay