[Scilab-Dev] Beginner in Scilab

[Guilherme Kunigami]

Removing my installed version did the trick!

Thank you for your help!

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
<sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr>wrote:

> Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 19:18 -0300, Guilherme Kunigami a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry if I'm being inconvenient, but I'm really stuck.
> Don't worry. We all have been beginners with Scilab ... and we are here
> to help!
>
> > I tried some other things:
> >
> > I included in my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH the directories for libjava.so,
> > libverify.so and libhpi.so.
> It was just a warning. No big deal!
>
> >  The error I get now is:
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/f1f57518f
> >
> > I'm not sure why the system is searching for the file in:
> >
> > > /usr/local/lib/scilab/libscilinear_algebra.so
> >
> > since it should be looked for in:
> >
> > >
> /home/kunigami/development/scilab/scilab/modules/linear_algebra/.libs/libscilinear_algebra.so
> Indeed.
>
> > Should I uninstall my installed copy of scilab to use the development
> > version?
> Yep, please try this solution.
> However, that is a bug. The build system should try to load first the
> current source tree and not /usr/local/
> I reported it here:
> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4382
>
> Sylvestre
>
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Guilherme Kunigami
> > <kunigami at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Hi again,
> >
> >         I think I got the latest version using GIT, but this time I'm
> >         not being able to compile it. When I run 'make' I get some
> >         dependence errors. I think the relevant messages are these:
> >
> >         http://pastebin.com/f4a117ca3
> >
> >         It seems I'm missing libjava.so, libverify.so, libjvm.so and
> >         libhpi.so at /usr/bin/ld.
> >
> >         Executing a 'locate libjava.so' it show that I have this file
> >         at the following locations:
> >
> >
> /home/kunigami/downloads/scilab-5.1/java/jdk1.6.0_11/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so
> >
> /home/kunigami/downloads/scilab-5.1/java/jre1.6.0_11/lib/i386/libjava.so
> >         /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so
> >
> >         The first two locations refer to a package I downloaded from
> >         Scilab page because of dependencies (but I haven't used those
> >         yet). I thought that setting the third location at
> >         $LD_LIBRARY_PATH would solve the problem, but that still give
> >         me some errors.
> >
> >         I'm able to compile the stable version perfectly, but not the
> >         git version. Any clues?
> >
> >         Thank you again,
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sylvestre Ledru
> >         <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> wrote:
> >                 Hello Guilherme,
> >
> >                 Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 11:44 -0300, Guilherme
> >                 Kunigami a écrit :
> >                 > Hi all,
> >                 >
> >                 > I'd like to start developing something for Scilab,
> >                 but I'm not quite
> >                 > sure from where to start.
> >
> >                 Cool!
> >
> >                 > I've downloaded the source code (I think this is not
> >                 the latest
> >                 > version though) and took a look at some source code
> >                 from modules (e.g.
> >                 > gui module). But I still don't know much about the
> >                 architecture of
> >                 > Scilab or how it works.
> >
> >                 We are using git to manage the source. If you clone
> >                 the current git, you
> >                 will get the future version 5.2 of Scilab. You can
> >                 also checkout the
> >                 branch 5.1 to get the future version 5.1.1.
> >
> >                 > Documents I've tried to read:
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >
> http://www.scilab.org/developers/doxygen_scilab/index.html
> >
> >                 Well, don't start with that. It is hard to start
> >                 understanding a
> >                 software with the whole documentation.
> >
> >                 > http://wiki.scilab.org/Developers
> >                 >
> >                 > I also tried to look for some bugs. This one seems
> >                 quite simple to
> >                 > fix:
> >                 >
> >                 > http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3264
> >                 >
> >                 > but I'm not sure on how to proceed.
> >
> >                 Indeed, this one is easy.
> >                 You just have to find out where these strings are in
> >                 the code (grep is
> >                 your friend) and to remplace them by better.
> >
> >                 After that, if you want to get familiar with Scilab,
> >                 you need to have an
> >                 objective in Scilab. It is a huge software with many
> >                 different
> >                 aspects... Just focus on some parts.
> >
> >                 Don't hesitate if you have any other
> >                 questions/remarks...
> >
> >                 Sylvestre
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         Guilherme Kunigami
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Guilherme Kunigami
>
>


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Guilherme Kunigami
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