[Radiance-general] objline doesn't seem to work properly and X11 window flash and gone very quickly

Fri Jun 11 10:39:04 PDT 2010

Oops. Yeah, I guess step zero is: "get the developer tools installed on your system". Sorry about that!

The developer tools (now called XCode) include the compiler and the program "make", which you need to compile the source code (and its absence on your system is causing all your error messages there). XCode is a free (but large) download from Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html

You have to create a developer account, but its free and amounts to a login/password. Grab XCode and install it, making sure you install all the X11 dev stuff, then go back to that ray directory and try rerunning ./makeall install and we'll go from there. 

On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Ji Zhang 张冀 wrote:

> Dear Rob, thank you very much for your detailed explanation!!!
> 
> However, I still couldn't get the radiance installed in the default directories follow the steps suggested by you. 
> 
> The following are the messages shown in the Terminal during installation (within the area maked by #):
> 
> ####################################################################
> Ji-ZHANGs-iMac:ray jizhang$ sudo ./makeall install
> 
>         RADIANCE 4.0a INSTALLATION
> 
> This script rebuilds all of the Radiance programs and installs
> them on your system.  You should read the file README before running
> this script.  You can type ^C (followed by return) at any time to abort.
> 
> You must first answer the following questions.
> 
> What is your preferred editor [vi]? 
> Where do you want the executables [/usr/local/bin]? 
> Current rmake command is:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec make "SPECIAL=ogl" \
>     "OPT=-O2" \
>     "MACH=-DBSD -DNOSTEREO -Dfreebsd -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib" \
>     ARCH=Intel "COMPAT=" \
>     INSTDIR=/usr/local/bin \
>     LIBDIR=/Users/jizhang/Radiance_lib \
>     ESUFFIX= \
>     CC=cc CONFIGURE_ARCH=i386 "$@" -f Rmakefile
> Do you want to change it? n
> Making programs...
> ~/ray/src/common ~/ray/src 
> In directory common...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/rt ~/ray/src 
> In directory rt...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/meta ~/ray/src 
> In directory meta...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/cv ~/ray/src 
> In directory cv...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/gen ~/ray/src 
> In directory gen...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/ot ~/ray/src 
> In directory ot...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/px ~/ray/src 
> In directory px...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/hd ~/ray/src 
> In directory hd...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/util ~/ray/src 
> In directory util...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> ~/ray/src/cal ~/ray/src 
> In directory cal...
> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
> ~/ray/src 
> There were some errors.
> ####################################################################
> 
> When this "unsuccessful" installation finished, there seem to be no file at all in the /usr/local/lib/ray directory...
> 
> and no radiance executable can be found in the /usr/local/bin directory either......
> 
> So, can you help to take a look and point out what the problem here is?
> 
> BTW, the Terminal I'm using in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is titled "Terminal - bash -95x50".  
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Ji
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Rob Guglielmetti <rpg at rumblestrip.org> wrote:
> Hmmm, that's odd. The error means that the program could not open the file vchars.mta in a read-only capacity. Following a normal installation of Radiance on Mac OS X, that file should indeed live in /usr/local/lib/ray/meta and be read-only accessible to everyone. 
> 
> So yeah it's possible that something didn't go right during installation. The correct and not-totally-detailed procedures for installing Radiance on the Mac are:
> 
> go to www.radiance-online.org, click the link on the left for "download radiance", and follow the procedures found under "Download official release from this server". Basically you grab the source code, and compile. Compiling on the Mac is easy, you run ./makeall install from the directory where you unpack the archive, and follow the prompts. You need to run this as an admin, and in Mac OS this is easy:
> 
> sudo ./makeall install
> 
> This will prompt you for the administrator password, and then you just follow the prompts. 
> 
> NOTE: you must have the directory /usr/local/lib/ray already existing so the installer can place all the library files. This is done with 
> 
> sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/ray
> 
> Maybe this was your problem the first time around? Here's a quick rundown of the steps:
> 
> 1. download http://www.radiance-online.org/software/rad3R9all.tar.gz 
> 2. at the command prompt, go to the directory where you saved the rad3R9all.tar.gz file
> 3. type: gunzip < rad3R9all.tar.gz | tar xf -
> 4. go to the archive directory (cd ray)
> 5. create /usr/local/lib/ray directory if it does not exist (sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/ray)
> 6. type sudo ./makeall install (supply admin password when asked)
> 7. follow the prompts, responding to defaults; definitely answer 'y' when asked if you want to install libraries, accept default location
> 8. make the PATH changes recommended after installation. 
> 
> Give that a go, and retry objline.
> 
> - Rob
> 
> On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Ji Zhang 张冀 wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, John!
>> 
>> But I think the rad file I used should be OK because it only contains five simple boxes and I can use rvu to generate a rendering for it. 
>> 
>> Just now I tried to use the table.rad file got from Axel Jacobs' tutorial and the objline still doesn't work. Moreover, there's an error message showing in the Terminal: 
>> 
>> fatal - cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/ray/meta/vchars.mta", mode "r"
>> 
>> I sense my Radiance has got big problem. What does this error message mean? 
>> 
>> Should I reinstall Radiance?
>> 
>> What are the correct and detailed procedures to install Radiance on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Ji
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM, John Mardaljevic <jm at dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Ji,
>> 
>> Objline might bomb out if there are non-planar vertices in your model.
>> 
>> -John
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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