[Radiance-general] Radiance on Windows 7 Ultimate using SUA (it works!)

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Wow!  That is great news!

Randolph

On 2011-08-01 15:02:55 -0700, Guy Vaessen said:

> > It might be possible to get full Radiance going under Windows 7 
> > Ultimate, which has a Unix emulation environment.  However, doing this 
> > requires development time and the purchase of a copy of Ultimate and 
> > possibly a copy of the MS Visual Studio suite as well.  To run the 
> > resulting package might also require users to buy Ultimate.
> 
> > So...one more thing we might try, if we had the resources and if there 
> > were enough interest.
>  
> I just wanted to tell that I've tried it and it works! (A bit to my supprise.)
>  
> I have: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits.
>  
> I followed the guideline on the Radiance Wiki site:
> ./makeall install in ray folder
> chosing ~/radiance/bin installs on Windows in C:\user\yourname\radiance\bin
> I choose option 2) Linux (seems to be the best option).
>  
> I encountered three problems, here are they, with solution.
>  
> Problem 1: (Seems to be related to 64 bit system with 32 bit gcc and 64 
> bit or wrong archiver)
> This is the error:
> Error code 127
> AR_LIBRARIAN environment variable
> ===============================================================================
> Solution:
> Add: export PATH="/opt/gcc.4.2/bin:${PATH}" to C:\windows\SUA\etc\profile.lcl
> Also see: http://www.suacommunity.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=16624 for more 
> detailled info.
>  
>  
> Problem 2:
> Making programs...
> /dev/fs/C/Windows/SUA/usr/examples/radiance/ray/src/common 
> /dev/fs/C/Windows/SUA
> /usr/examples/radiance/ray/src
> In directory common...
> gcc -Dlinux -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib/x86 -L/usr/lib/x86 
> -L/usr/local/li
> b/ray -I/usr/include/X11 -DNOSTEREO -O2 -c ezxml.c
> ezxml.c: In function 'ezxml_parse_fd':
> ezxml.c:647: error: '_SC_PAGESIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ezxml.c:647: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ezxml.c:647: error: for each function it appears in.)
> *** Error code 1 (continuing)
> `install' not remade because of errors.
> ===============================================================================
> Solution: Included: #define EZXML_NOMMAP in ezxml.c
>  
>  
> Problem 3:
> In directory rt...
> gcc -I../common -L../lib -O2 -Dlinux -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
> -L/usr/local/lib/x86 -L/us
> r/lib/x86 -L/usr/local/lib/ray -I/usr/include/X11 -DNOSTEREO -o 
> ./rtrace rtmain.
> o rtrace.o duphead.o persist.o ../lib/libraycalls.a 
> ../lib/libradiance.a -lrtrad
>  -lm
> ../lib/librtrad.a(header.o):header.c:(.text+0x5b4): undefined reference 
> to `_tim
> egm'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1 (continuing)
> ===============================================================================
> Solution: Included timegm.o in src/common/Rmakefile
> Like:
> UTLOBJ = ezxml.o ccolor.o ccyrgb.o bsdf.o bsdf_m.o bsdf_t.o loadbsdf.o \
>  disk2square.o hilbert.o timegm.o
>  
> That's all, after that I ran gendaylit and Mark Stock's benchmark test 
> suite, and all works.
>  
> Still need to install an XServer (Xming) and a NFS server (included in 
> Windows 7 Ultimate).
> And run some more tests including rvu, trad, falsecolor, rpiece.
>  
> I hope this is usefull,
>  
> Guy
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Randolph M. Fritz
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