Re: configure fails on checking ino_t

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 6/9/2017 7:22 PM, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> thanks for this - both 32-bit and 64-bit Geomview from
> your repository work as expected. I was able to run
> SaVi (http://savi.sf.net/) under both, with OpenGL and
> piping between Geomview and SaVi working so that
> SaVi could control Geomview.

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for testing.

> However, Geomview's supplied modules aren't listed in
> the right panel of its main window,
> suggesting it hasn't been configured and built with xforms
> and with Tcl/Tk, which its modules need. I have
> some notes with hints on this at:
> http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/running-under-Windows/

It looks like this has changed.  There's no longer a --with-xforms 
configure option, and the modules requiring xforms or Tcl/Tk are now 
packaged separately.  (See the top-level README.)  I'll think about how 
to best package these modules.

> On a related note, as you're associated with Cornell Math
> you know of DsTool. Patrick Worfolk worked on the v3 Tk version of
> that before he did SaVi, which I maintain, and it
> can also work with Geomview.
> 
> DsTool can be made to work on 32-bit Cygwin with Tcl/Tk 8.5
> (not 64-bit or 8.6 - seems to be reaching end of life as
> is) and could, with a bit of updating, be
> made current as another optional Geomview
> module that can also run standalone without
> Geomview, just like SaVi.
> I have some notes on DsTool at
> http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/DsTool/
> and there's some recent discussion of DsTool on the
> geomview-users mailing list.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Ken


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