[Radiance-general] instructions for compiling pre-releases

[Chris Kallie]

Thanks Greg and Randolph,

For starters, sorry Greg: In my haste I screwed up the 5.0 installation. 
Hope I got it right this time: http://www.kallie.org/RadInfo/Rad50info2.txt

Still digesting the rest of this info...Thanks again!
Chris

On 8/1/15 7:41 PM, Randolph M. Fritz wrote:
> The head version of Radiance is available via CVS with the command:
>    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at radiance-online.org:/home/cvsd/radiance
> co ray
>
> IIRC going to directory "ray" and issuing the command "cvs update" will
> update the directory to the latest version.
>
> For more on the CVS server, see:
>    http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/CVS%20source%20code
>
> On 8/1/2015 4:29 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
>> 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
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