[Scilab-users] Building on 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04

[Tim Wescott]

For my locally-installed Scilab I have a file at /usr/local/bin/scilab
which is marked executable and which reads:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/local/share/scilab-5.5.1/bin/scilab $*

It isn't pretty, but it works.

On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 09:38 +1000, Brenton Horne wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have tried to install Scilab 5.5.2 on my Ubuntu machine from source
> code. Now I know there's a binary but I want an installation that
> creates a /usr/bin/scilab file so that the command 'scilab' launches
> the Scilab GUI. I have tried creating a symbolic link (via sudo ln
> -s /path/to/scilab-5.5.2/bin /usr/bin/scilab) to allow this but for
> whatever reason running 'scilab' from the command line won't seem to
> launch the Scilab GUI after I create such a link. 
> 
> My build attempt may be summarized by this bash script (before this
> script was when I downloaded the source tarball and the prerequisite
> tarball to Downloads using Chrome):
>         cd ~/Downloads for i in *.tar.gz do sudo tar xvzf $i -C /opt;
>         done sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/scilab-5.5.2 cd /opt/scilab-5.5.2
>         sudo ./configure sudo make all
> ​
> no errors were encountered up until the last line, the last six lines
> of output were:
>         Found dependency from scilab-cli-bin to libstdc++ found
>         Makefile:2092: recipe for target 'check-libstdcpp-dep' failed
>         make[1]: *** [check-libstdcpp-dep] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving
>         directory '/opt/scilab-5.5.2' Makefile:1541: recipe for target
>         'all-recursive' failed make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> ​
> If it is important I have been trying to follow the "Compiling Scilab
> 5.x under GNU-Linux Unix" Wiki article and to get any prerequisites
> not in the tarball I ran:
>         sudo apt-get build-dep scilab
>         
>         ​
> The version of Scilab found in the vivid repos is 5.5.1 so I thought
> that the dependencies for 5.5.2 would be similar enough to allow
> Scilab 5.5.2 to be built using 5.5.1's dependencies. 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Brenton
> 
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