[Radiance-general] instructions for compiling pre-releases

[Greg Ward]

It's an interesting bunch of warnings.  There was even an undiscovered bug in there for a never-used feature of ies2rad...

Seems like you still aren't compiling the HEAD, however.  I don't think you got the photon map from the version of the sources you used.  You need the latest.

Cheers,
-Greg

> From: Chris Kallie <kallie at umn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] instructions for compiling pre-releases
> Date: August 1, 2015 4:00:35 PM PDT
> 
> 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