Compiling SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) or using v.4.2 binaries

Compiling SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) or using v.4.2 binaries

[Lou Cyphre]

Did anybody recompiled successfully SNNS 4.2 with Cygwin/X?
Its home page is at
   http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/

I firstly tried using SNNS 4.2 binaries with latest Cygwin/X as X-server, but 
something wasn't working in the user interface (couldn't select some menu list 
entries), so I decided to get sources at
   http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/downloads/SNNS/SNNSv4.2.tar.gz
and try recompile them.

Beside a few #define missing (that I properly fixed) seemed that the configure
script was running fine, infact I can run the application, and now all the
menu lists do work, but... when loading even an example configuration file I
get syntax errors in file, and after some clicks, trying opening other
windows, crashes.

Note that I already used successfully on Linux some years ago, so not new to
program usage.
And yes, I know that JavaNNS does exist...

Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated.

Lou

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Re: Compiling SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) or using v.4.2 binaries

[Harold L Hunt II]

Lou,

Lou Cyphre wrote:

> Did anybody recompiled successfully SNNS 4.2 with Cygwin/X?
> Its home page is at
>   http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/
> 
> I firstly tried using SNNS 4.2 binaries with latest Cygwin/X as 
> X-server, but something wasn't working in the user interface (couldn't 
> select some menu list entries), so I decided to get sources at
>   http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/downloads/SNNS/SNNSv4.2.tar.gz
> and try recompile them.
> 
> Beside a few #define missing (that I properly fixed) seemed that the 
> configure
> script was running fine, infact I can run the application, and now all the
> menu lists do work, but... when loading even an example configuration 
> file I
> get syntax errors in file, and after some clicks, trying opening other
> windows, crashes.

Are you running Cygwin with binary mode mounts or did you change the 
default to text?  Send in the output of the "mount" command run in a 
Cygwin bash shell.  I would suspect that SNNS expects UNIX-style 
end-of-line characters and would thus be confused by DOS-style 
end-of-line characters.  Poor coding could lead to a crash as well.

Harold