Re: Installation

[pauljohn]

I've not done this on Solaris, but I can help with some aspects.
I wish the readme were better on this question, as newcomers
are invariably befuddled.


If you run the binary version, you need not get tcl/tk/ etc.
It is all compiled into it and that's the beauty of the binary
instally.

The archive method requires you to get all those packages, but
you only have to do it if the binary doesn't work or you want
to be able to patch the swarm source code.  

You might look at the "active FAQ" we are building for Swarm1.1 and
forward, see if the linux instructions help you understand more clearly.
http://valinux.pols.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq.html

I'm tinkering with the faq_manager software that runs that page if you
get errors, please tell me.  I think it is OK.

pj

On  9 May, Zafar Iqbal wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install the binary version of swarm-1.1 on 
> solaris. In the 'Release' web page at santa-fe it says that 
> this binary was built using Tcl7.6, Tk4.2, BLT2.3, 
> tclobjc1.3, libffi-1.17. However in Makefile.conf it says :
> ### OTHERLIBDIRS needs to be set so Swarm can find X11, Tcl, Tk, BLT,
> ###   tclobjc, and objc libs. Note: we use the file libtcl.a, not libtcl7.4.a
> ###   Insure that libtcl.a is really tcl7.4, libtk.a is really tk4.0.
> 
> on the system that I'm using gcc2.7.2 is installed but not 
> tcl/tk or any other such software. Which versions should I 
> install? 
> Also libffi-1.17 is absent from the needed software web 
> page. Where can I get this? The other versions like Tcl7.6 
> are slightly different (specifically tcl7.6.p2). Do I need 
> to download tcl7.6 and the others from the sunsite?
> 
> Would it be better to start again, using the source 
> version? if so which versions should I use?
> 
> I have downloaded tcl7.4 and tk4.0 from the sunsite but 
> after installation the X11 or Xlib.h were absent. Does this 
> come with BLT?
> 
> When it comes to changing the variables OTHERINCDIRS, 
> OTHERLIBDIRS in Makefile.conf can they point to multiple 
> places? because when I install tcl and tk they end up in 
> different directories. Is the solution to move all these 
> files in one directory? 
> Note I can only install files in my home directory i.e. 
> /home/zi197
> 
> 
>       Zafar
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>           Zafar Iqbal, Msc Arch. Computing, Dept. of Archaeology, 
>           University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ,UK       
>  
>           E-mail: address@hidden
>           Web site: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~zi197/
> 
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