[Radiance-dev] Compile Problems with Interix

[Marcus Jacobs]

Thanks for the info Andy. I did do a keyword search on 'Interix' and it 
seemed like Greg and yourself took your correspondence out of this forum so 
I am unsure of what became of this. Hey, at least you had some success in 
getting your code to compile. I am not even there yet.

I do not know if I want to start commenting out statements within the source 
code. This is like having a rattling bolt in your car engine or suspension 
and just haphazardly removing it in order to alleviate the situation without 
knowing if you removed a critical part. I do want a stable, robust solution 
to this problem (if it exists at all). I asked a question some time ago 
about compiling programs on SFU on Interop System's forum. One of the gurus 
there said "Read through the FAQ's about porting stuff; what options to 
define ("-D") etc. It makes a big difference, particularly WRT to header 
files. Interix aims to be SUS compliant."  The section in the FAQ that he 
was alluding to I believe is this:


Using GNU’s configure
When using GNU's configure script to configure a build environment for an 
application it is suggested that you set the following environment variables 
before running configure.
        CFLAGS="-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT"
        CPPFLAGS="-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include"
        LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
If GNU's configure complains that the type of system is not recognized then 
you need to update the file "config.guess." Some applications have multiple 
copies of "config.guess" so be sure to find all of them. An updated 
"config.guess" can be downloaded from 
"ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pub/config.guess". You may also need to update 
your LD_LIBRARY_FLAGS if you are using shared object libraries (DSOs), but 
this is likely already done for you if you have installed a /Tools packaged 
library.

I don't know if this will help but I guess it’s worth a shot. Can anyone 
provide some insight as to what all of this means?

I assume that you compiled Radiance using gcc. I am doing the same although 
I may try to port it to Windows using Microsoft’s C compiler later in the 
future (if it is at all possible). There is also a beta version of gcc 4.0 
available for Interix on Interop System's FTP site. This is something worth 
looking in to but I do not believe that this will help my situation. I think 
the problems that I am having are related SFU's standard libraries.

Before giving up on this all together, I really would like to evaluate 
Interix as a Windows solution for Radiance. Since it does support a NFS, I 
may be able to finally utilize multiple processors via rpiece. Thanks for 
your suggestions.

Marcus