[Radiance-general] instructions for compiling pre-releases

[Chris Kallie]

Hello Rob, developers,

Thanks for your helpful comments. I managed to install rad4R0supp.tar.gz 
and radiance-HEAD.tgz. However, I had to install XQuartz to avoid 
errors. Still lots of installation warnings though.

Also, the github releases seem to be different than the releases 
mentioned above. Other than warnings, my standard (non-github) 
installations seem to be working. I might benefit from using CMake, but 
I don't know how to use it.

As long as the warnings are non-problematic, I am happy with the 
installations that seem to be working.

Thanks for your help!
-Chris

Installation output, in case the devs find them useful..

1) Radiance 4.2 installation (output: www.kallie.org/RadInfo/Rad42info.txt )
2) Radiance-4.2.2.tar.gz did not have a lib folder, so I tried adding 
one, but it installed with errors (output: 
www.kallie.org/RadInfo/Rad422info.txt )
3) rad4R0supp.tar.tz and radiance-HEAD.tgz (output: 
www.kallie.org/RadInfo/Rad50info.txt )



On 7/31/15 11:49 AM, Guglielmetti, Robert wrote:
> What's missing? There may be some missing teeth in the CMake files,
> resulting in incomplete installs. To clarify, I assume you want to use the
> photon map stuff.(?) Those new programs (mkpmap, etc) are getting built,
> but perhaps the "install" target is not quite right. So: what platform are
> you trying to do this on, what is your workflow, and what is missing or
> not working? Apologies that there aren't instructions for using the CMake
> stuff in the Radiance source; it's on the list of things to do. Basically
> you use CMake to generate the makefiles, and then just use make like
> normal.
>
> You could also use the "makeall" csh script which comes with the source
> and is maintained by Greg (and probably Roland now too). That guy has has
> always been pretty bulletproof on unix systems. Andy's YouTube vid on
> installing Radiance on OSX demonstrates the use of the makeall script; the
> process is basically the same for Linux:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptTmdKSfK68
>
>
> - Rob
>
>
> On 7/31/15, 9:16 AM, "Chris Kallie" <kallie at umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> Could someone direct me to installation instructions for pre-releases
>> that were downloaded from github?
>>
>> I am able to download and compile pre-releases (e.g., version 5.0.a.3)
>> without any apparent compiling errors, but when I try to use that
>> installation, there are missing programs. How does one use (select and
>> combine?) the appropriate release/pre-release files to compile a fully
>> functional program suite? Presently, I need the original functionality
>> plus the ability to compute caustics (making the latest official release
>> insufficient).
>>
>> I am sure this is a common issue, but without access to a convenient
>> source of organized information (i.e., a wiki), I find myself fumbling
>> with Google searches and generally lost.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Chris
>>
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