[FR-users] FXRuby, FOX & FXScinitilla on Linux

[Curt Hibbs]

I wanted to cross post this for the archives.

Curt

-----Original Message-----
From: Lyle Johnson [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 8:30 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ANN: FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Release Candidate 1


Bill Tihen wrote:

> I have tried installing the RPMs on a RH80 machine.  There seems to be a
> problem with naming? of the fox library when using the RH80 rpms on the
> Fox website -- fxsincilla doesn't install from rpm claiming libfox
> doesn't exist. I compiled fxsincilla by hand -- which works fine, but
> then freeRIDE won't start -- all the libraries it calls it doesn't find.

The RPM situation seems to be pretty fragmented for both FOX and 
FXScintilla; your best bet is probably to build both directly from the 
source code. First, FOX:

        ./configure --with-opengl=opengl
        make
        make install (as root)

then same deal for FXScintilla.

> Then I decided to try compiling all needed packages from scratch -- but
> was met with:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lMesaGL
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [libFOX.la] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/downloads/Fox/fox-1.0.26/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

This would be fixed by passing in the '--with-opengl=opengl' flag to 
FOX's configure script as shown above. This is also discussed in the 
INSTALL file in the FOX source code distribution.

> At that point I gave up due to time commitment (probably other OSes are
> easier, but RH80 is not trivial to install.  (Hopefully RH will start
> installing all this with the basic OS.

Yes, I do wonder who we (as a community) need to sleep with to get FOX, 
FXScintilla and FXRuby included in future Red Hat distributions ;)