[sldev] [VWR] Non standalone 64bit builds of http-texture

[Glen]

nice! I'll try it out tonight again.

--GC

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've been playing with the http-texture branch in a "non-standalone"
> capacity on a linux 64 bit host. As everyone knows this is an
> unsupported combination and its usual for us on 64bit to build with
> --standalone to use system supplied libraries. So i decided to see how
> much pain was still involved to complete this process for building the
> "LL way" on a 64bit system.
> 
> It turns out that the total pain is not that bad, I have noticed that
> linux64 packages have appeared in install.xml quite a while back and
> the ones that are listed there DO work fine, there are just a few
> missing. By substituting the missing ones the build on a 64bit system
> completes almost with out hitch (2 pretty minor issues related to
> 64bit ness already in jira and imported). All the other scripts work
> and produce 1) a working viewer built on 64 bit 2) a distribution
> tarball. SO everything looks pretty good, it just needs some one to
> finish off the last few packages, push to S3 and update install.xml,
> which I can't believe is that much work.
> 
> The particular packages that seem to be missing are:-
> 
> SDL
> dbusglib
> elfio
> fontconfig
> glib
> google
> gtk-atk-pango-glib
> libuuid
> ndofdev
> tut
> 
> out of that list the only ones that seemed to break the build were
> dbusglib,elfio,glib,gtk-atk-pango-glib and ndofdev.
> 
> Its possible that the remaining few were optional extras and cmake
> excluded them or they got found in implicit search paths on my system
> (SDL should have been a breaker). Anyway by just adding in the missing
> header files the build completed successfully and produced a working
> viewer. Although mozlib was not found for some reason but that is
> listed as a linux64 package as well, but that needs checking.
> 
> So basically can we do something about the missing packages?  I've
> opened a jira for this VWR-12656
> 
> This releases a bunch of pain and even opens the possibility of
> automated 64bit builds of the http-texture branch.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robin
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