[Gmsh] Gmsh build on RHEL4 is mssing GUI!

[David Colignon]

On 17/02/12 09:09, Jamshid Gharib wrote:

> Dear Christophe,
>
> Thank you for the reply.
> I went ahead and got FLTK 1.3.0 package. It is late and I will try to install FLTK tomorrow
> and redo my Gmsh build. Now that you have confirmed the culprit is likely missing FLTK,
> I am hopeful that tomorrow I'll be lucky and get my Gmsh successfully built with GUI.
> But as I was checking the Gmsh source, I noticed that there is a Qt directory as well.
> *Does this mean that I must also have Qt installed on my machine to build
> Gmsh with GUI?

No, only Fltk, the Qt directory is just a small test and is not needed.

Regards,

Dave



* *Please let me know.*
> Well, I wish you a good weekend and thanks again for your help. I'll keep you
> posted on my progress.
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> -------- Original Message --------
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> Subject: 	Re: [Gmsh] Gmsh build on RHEL4 is mssing GUI!
> Date: 	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:42 +0100
> From: 	Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>
> To: 	Jamshid Gharib <jdgharib at gmail.com>
> CC: 	gmsh at geuz.org
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> On 17 Feb 2012, at 06:01, Jamshid Gharib wrote:
>
>  > Dear Christophe,
>  >
>  > Good evening from San Jose, California.
>  > I am hoping you have a little spare time to help me out with my Gmsh problem,
>  > namely, my built Gmsh on a RHEL4 (Redhat Enterprse Linux v4) has no GUI!
>  > The problem is most likely due to my unfamiliarity with Gmsh as well as cmake,
>  > but I hope you can graciously tell me how I can solve the problem.
>  > Thanks in adavance for all your help.
>  >
>  > Following is a somewhat detailed description of the problem.
>  > The Linux binary on the Gmsh site failed to run on my Linux machine with the
>  > following message:
>  > ... /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found ...
>  > I suspect this is due to Gmsh binary being built with a newer version
>  > of library.
>  > My linux is an old machine running 32bit RHEL4. Here is uname -a
>  > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.EL #1 Wed Jul 12 23:16:43 EDT
>  > 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>  >
>  > I thought no problem and went ahead and built Gmsh from its source
>  > file (version 2.5.0).
>  > In building Gmsh, I used all defaults; all seemed to go well and gmsh executable
>  > was created. However, my resulting gmsh executable has no GUI!
>  > For example, trying the follwoing:
>  > gmsh PanelPatch.bdf
>  > the follwoing are displayed:
>  >
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  > Info : Running
>  > '/tmp/scsi1/z-ztmpdir/z-t1/gmsh-2.5.0-source/z-build/gmsh
>  > PanelPatch.bdf' [1 node(s), max. 1 thread(s)]
>  > Info : Started on Thu Feb 16 13:56:47 2012
>  > Info : Reading 'PanelPatch.bdf'...
>  > Info : 18 vertices
>  > Info : Done reading 'PanelPatch.bdf'
>  > Info : Stopped on Thu Feb 16 13:56:47 2012
>  >
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >
>  > I dug into stuff on Gmsh webpage and internet, and found that Gmsh uses
>  > FLTK for its GUI. I then checked the log file of Gmsh nighhtly build and saw
>  > in the file, there are references to Fltk being looked for and its objects being
>  > created. For example:
>  > -- Found Fltk
>  > -- Using fltk-config script for Fltk 1.3
>  >
>  > However, when I examined my cmake results (copy attached for your inspection),
>  > I noticed that there is NO reference to Fltk stuff at all, which I
>  > suppose is the
>  > reason reason why my built Gmsh has no GUI.
>  > As you can see from the attached log file, my Gmsh configuration does NOT
>  > have any reference to Fltk, whereas the Gmsh nightly log does.
>  >
>  > What am I doing wrong? Could the problem be that FLTK is pehaps not
>  > installed on my machine? How can check this out?
>
>
> Hi Jamshid - Indeed you probably don't have the "development" package (libraries+include files) for FLTK installed on
> your machine. Launch your package manager and check for things like "fltk", "fltk-dev" or similar and install them. Then
> run cmake again.
>
>
>
>  > I greatly appreciate any help you can give me to fix this problem and
>  > get my Gmsh
>  > to have the GUI as it should.
>  > Thanks.
>  >
>  > Best Regards,
>  >
>  > Jamshid gharib
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