Re: Geomview compilation under cygwin ...

Re: Geomview compilation under cygwin ...

[Brian Ford]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, B. Marchand wrote:

> Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed
> Error: attempt to add non-widget child "DropSiteManager" to parent
> "Geomview" which supports only widgets.
>
This is an Cygwin X issue.  Please see http://cygwin.com/lists.html so you
can direct you questions to the proper audience.  I have directed this
response there.

Your installation is out-of-date, or you used a stale mirror.  Please
search the cygwin-xfree archives if you need more information.  The
resolution for this error message is there several times (ie. Use setup to
update from an up-to-date mirror and possibly recompile cleanly.)

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444

Re: Geomview compilation under cygwin ...

[B. Marchand]

Well, the only reason why I visited a separate website was to download 
the xforms library. The xforms library is not actually needed to compile 
geomview. It's only used to compile some of the examples that come with 
it. Geomview itself will run fine without it. Even if you do include it, 
it will have no impact on the geomview base itself.

After extensively searching the internet it became clear to me that a 
few people have tried to compile geomview under cygwin, and done so 
unsuccessfully. If there have been any successful compilations they 
haven't made it public knowledge, at least not that I've found yet. So, 
in that respect, at least I was able to get it to compile just fine in 
the most recent cygwin release. Unfortunately, just because something 
compiles doesn't mean it works, as is the case here. Seeing that I don't 
have a lot of time to go through the source and debug the code I was 
hoping someone could offer some insight in the interest of time.

The website that contains the installation instructions is, as you 
pointed out, German. Though the instructions are in English the source 
page itself is in German. I'm not up to date on my German so I can't do 
much about that. There's no email listed anywhere about the author of 
that page so I can't contact him, though I've tried to via other 
channels with no success.

So, the only source I have left is this, hoping that perhaps someone who 
has successfully compiled it before can share some information. Even 
better, perhaps I can get them to email me their source tree so I can 
compile it on my computer since they already got it to work. Perhaps 
Matthias Foehl, the author of that webpage, will be reading this mailing 
list at some point and he can get in touch with me, since I can't get a 
hold of him.

It's a small community but perhaps there's another geomview user out 
there reading this who can offer some pointers.

At any rate, I had already posted this to the cygwin-xfree site with no 
real success in terms of responses. I posted it here as well only for 
completion.


--B.

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:51:16PM -0500, B. Marchand wrote:
>  
>
>>I followed the instructions on
>>http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~mfoehl/Geomview_under_Windows.html
>>
>>about compiling geomview under cygwin. I had to acquire the forms
>>library for Win32 from a different source
>>
>>http://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/links/unix/desktop/xforms/NT/GnuWIN32/
>>    
>>
>
>You found instructions on a website in Germany for compiling a package,
>picked up another package for some additional pieces, and, then, went
>to a third location for help when things didn't work as expected.
>
>It seems to me that you probably should go back to the first site and
>ask them for help about this since they are ostensibly the experts.
>--
>Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email.
>Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org
>and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com
>  
>

Re: Geomview compilation under cygwin ...

[Brian Ford]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, B. Marchand wrote:

> At any rate, I had already posted this to the cygwin-xfree site with no
> real success in terms of responses. I posted it here as well only for
> completion.
>
I appologize, as I just found that post.  I am *really* behind on my list
reading because of the flu, then the holidays, and then a funeral.  As
such, I am reading the list backward chronologically and trying to keep up
with the current stuff.

At any case, that post did not contain the vital error message that
clearly implies your problem.  If you would follow my suggestions about
updating your installation (particularly Xt, and lesstif), then
recompile, you should get much further.

Good luck.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444