[scilab-Users] scilab 5.1.1 compilation under Solaris 10

[Jonathan Blanchard]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Langella
Raphael<raphael.langella at steria.cnes.fr> wrote:
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Langella Raphael [mailto:raphael.langella at steria.cnes.fr]
>> Envoyé : jeudi 20 août 2009 09:44
>> À : users at lists.scilab.org
>> Objet : RE: [scilab-Users] scilab 5.1.1 compilation under Solaris 10
>>
>> > -----Message d'origine-----
>> > De : irf610 at gmail.com [mailto:irf610 at gmail.com] De la part
>> de Jonathan
>> > Blanchard Envoyé : mardi 18 août 2009 18:45 À :
>> users at lists.scilab.org
>> > Objet : Re: [scilab-Users] scilab 5.1.1 compilation under Solaris 10
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Sun Studio 12 won't work and you must use a very recent version of
>> > gcc. Preferably 4.3.3 or 4.3.4.
>> >
>> > If you get any errors with GCC you can post them here.
>> >
>> > Jonathan Blanchard
>>
>> OK, so I've tried with gcc 4.3.3 under Solaris 9 (by the way,
>> it's Solaris/SPARC). I get this error:
>>
>> In file included from src/c/callDynamicGateway.c:16:
>> src/c/getdynamicdebuginfo.c:28:20: error: getopt.h: No such
>> file or directory
>>
>> So, I've tried commenting this include and it works (I think
>> those functions are defined in unistd.h).
>> But then I get this error:
>>
>> src/c/mput.c:16:21: error: stdint.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> So I edited modules/fileio/src/c/mput.c and replaced
>> <stdint.h> with <inttypes.h>. I also had to do it with
>> mget.c, mputi.c and mgeti.c.
>>
>> Next, I get this error:
>>
>> src/c/evaluate_expr.c: In function 'evaluate_expr':
>> src/c/evaluate_expr.c:517: error: expected expression before 'return'
>>
>> isnan and isint aren't defined in math.h under Solaris 9.
>>
>> So I edited modules/scicos_blocks/src/c/evaluate_expr.c :
>> After:
>> #ifndef max
>> #define max(a,b) ((a) >= (b) ? (a) : (b)) #endif
>>
>> I added:
>> # define isnan(x) \
>>       (sizeof (x) == sizeof (long double) ? isnan_ld (x) \
>>       : sizeof (x) == sizeof (double) ? isnan_d (x) \
>>       : isnan_f (x))
>> static inline int isnan_f  (float       x) { return x != x; }
>> static inline int isnan_d  (double      x) { return x != x; }
>> static inline int isnan_ld (long double x) { return x != x; }
>>
>> # define isinf(x) \
>>       (sizeof (x) == sizeof (long double) ? isinf_ld (x) \
>>       : sizeof (x) == sizeof (double) ? isinf_d (x) \
>>       : isinf_f (x))
>> static inline int isinf_f  (float       x) { return isnan (x - x); }
>> static inline int isinf_d  (double      x) { return isnan (x - x); }
>> static inline int isinf_ld (long double x) { return isnan (x - x); }
>>
>>
>> The last file (scilab-bin) fails with this error:
>>
>> Undefined                       first referenced
>>  symbol                             in file
>> libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> libintl_gettext
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/graphic_export/.li
>> bs/libscigraphic_export.so
>> libintl_textdomain
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> libiconv_close
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> libiconv_open
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> libintl_bindtextdomain
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> libintl_dgettext
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/modules/localization/.libs
>> /libscilocalization.so
>> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
>> .libs/scilab-bin
>>
>> The command line is missing -lintl and -liconv. I've added it
>> to LDFLAGS, rerun configure and it works.
>>
>> Next, I get this error:
>> ./bin/scilab -ns -nwni -f
>> modules/functions/scripts/buildmacros/buildmacros.sce
>> Could not find the Java configuration for the model <sun4u>.
>> Please contact us.
>> ld.so.1: scilab-bin: fatal: libjava.so: open failed: No such
>> file or directory Killed
>>
>> uname -m returns sun4u and not sparc. I've corrected the
>> scilab scripts so it recognize sun4u. I've rerun gmake, it works!
>>
>> But make install fails:
>>
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `echo "-------- Install macros (if
>> any) --------";  for dir in macros/  ; do  /bin/bash
>> /Produits/tmp/rla/Sol9/scilab-5.1.1/config/install-sh -d
>> /Produits/publics/sparc.SunOS.5.9/scilab/5.1.1/share/scilab/mo
>> dules/blas/$dir &&  if test -d ./$dir/; then
>> FILELIST="./$dir/*.sci ./$dir/*.bin ./$dir/*.sce ./$dir/names
>> ./$dir/lib"; for specialExt in ; do
>> specialExtDir="$specialExtDir ./$dir/$specialExt";  done;
>> FILELIST="$FILELIST $specialExtDir";  for file in `ls -1
>> $FILELIST 2>/dev/null`; do  echo
>> "/Produits/publics/sparc.SunOS.5.9/bin/install -c -m 644
>> $file
>> /Produits/publics/sparc.SunOS.5.9/scilab/5.1.1/share/scilab/mo
>> dules/blas/$dir" ;
>> /Produits/publics/sparc.SunOS.5.9/bin/install -c -m 644
>> "$file"
>> /Produits/publics/sparc.SunOS.5.9/scilab/5.1.1/share/scilab/mo
>> dules/blas/$dir ;  done;  fi;  done'
>>
>> I'm not sure what's wrong here.
>>
>> By the way, is Solaris/SPARC a supported plateform?
>>
>> Raphaël Langella
>
> So, the "make install" failed, but I can start scilab from the build dir. It starts, but when I try to run a demo to test it, nothing appears in the window, and this error is printed many times on the terminal:
>
> An error occurred when Scilab tried to open a Canvas: org.scilab.modules.gui.bridge.canvas.SwingScilabCanvasImpl
> If an exception about java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError has been thrown, check if etc/librarypath.xml contains the path to gluegen and jogl libraries
>

You need to have the thirdparty folder copied into the source
directory of Scilab. You can take it from the linux prerequesites
package on the scilan download page. Also you will have to download
JOGL and place it in that thirdparty folder and get the libs somewhere
the binaries can find them.

Jonathan Blanchard