[erlang-questions] Building wxerlang [Was: IPC bus for Erlang?]
Camille Troillard
tuscland@REDACTED
Fri Apr 3 17:34:34 CEST 2009
Hello Dan,
I think I am getting close to having wxerlang running on Mac OS X.
However, there is a last problem in wxerlang building process you should
know about.
In the OTP R13A release notes, it is recommended for Darwin (Mac OS X) users
to build Erlang with --enable-darwin64bits option.
That doesn't work, "./configure --enable-hipe" worked fine on OS X and
wxerlang is now working on my system, thanks.
Best,
Cam
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Dan Gudmundsson <dgud@REDACTED>wrote:
> I tried to add configure test for the mac leopard libs, but I obviously
> failed.
> My configure skills are rather limited.
>
> After you have built and installed wxwidgets.
> Add the install dir to the path, i.e. so that wx-config is found in the
> path
>
> unpack a freash r13a erlang,
> run ./configure && make && make install for the complete erlang package.
>
> The separate install script in wx library was intended for standalone
> wxErlang-releases
> before it was included in the erlang distribution. I have some more work to
> do..
> Thanks.
>
> /Dan
>
> Camille Troillard wrote:
>
>> Dan,
>>
>> Just two more things:
>>
>> 1. It appears on Mac OS X Leopard that it is needed to instruction the
>> wxerlang configure script to use the newly installed wxWidgets library, like
>> this:
>>
>> cd wx
>> ./configure
>> --with-wxconfig=/usr/local/lib/wx-config/mac-unicode-release-static-2.8
>>
>> 2. in wxerlang, "make install" fails with the following error:
>>
>> olibrius:wx camille$ sudo make install
>> Password:
>> escript ./install.es <http://install.es> @libdir@
>> escript: exception error: undefined function 'escript__install.io <
>> http://escript__install.io>':format/2
>> in function 'escript__install.es__1238__757603__565159':main/1
>> in call from escript:run/2
>> in call from escript:start/1
>> in call from init:start_it/1
>> in call from init:start_em/1
>> make: *** [install] Error 127
>>
>> Sorry, I am not proficient enough in escript to be able to fix that.
>> I am using Erlang OTP R13A.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Camille Troillard <tuscland@REDACTED<mailto:
>> tuscland@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> OK, I understand: I have actually tried to build wxWidgets /after/
>> installing Erlang.
>> I found some details to be a bit confusing:
>>
>> When Erlang is built, there is no warning about a deprecated or
>> absent version of wxWidgets. For me it's like everything was ready
>> to go. Having found that it was not the case, I have tried to
>> follow wxerlang instructions.
>>
>> So, in the wxerlang build instruction it is said that the wxWidgets
>> build should be static. Because the wxerlang driver has been built
>> successfully and that it need a dynamic library, it didn't occurred
>> to me that building wxWidgets and Erlang in the right order would
>> solve the problem.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for letting me know this. I think it would be great
>> if the build instructions could reflect that*, or if by default
>> Erland is not built with wxWidgets support unless a correct static
>> library is found.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Cam
>>
>> (*) that is, tell the user that on Mac OS X the wxWidgets system
>> library will not be used, and that a fresh build must be made before
>> building Erlang.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Dan Gudmundsson
>> <dgud@REDACTED <mailto:dgud@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mac OS X you will need to compile and install wxWidgets by
>> yourself, before compiling erlang. The wxWidgets libs that are
>> included with Mac OS X Leopard is old and is missing some things
>> I require, (e.g. wxStyledTextCtrl which provides erlang syntax
>> highlighting).
>>
>> See compiling instructions here:
>>
>> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/wxerlang/index.php?title=Getting_Started
>>
>> /Dan
>>
>> Camille Troillard wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Steve Davis
>> <steven.charles.davis@REDACTED
>> <mailto:steven.charles.davis@REDACTED>
>> <mailto:steven.charles.davis@REDACTED
>> <mailto:steven.charles.davis@REDACTED>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've been working on a library that does much of what you
>> describe. It
>> wraps for the cross-platform GUI library 'wx' that
>> appeared in R13A
>> release of Erlang/OTP.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I have tested that on Windows and it worked well.
>> However, on Mac OS X it compiles but I get :
>>
>> Erlang R13A (erts-5.7) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2]
>> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>>
>> Eshell V5.7 (abort with ^G)
>> 1> sudoku:start().
>> <0.34.0>
>> 2> =ERROR REPORT==== 2-Apr-2009::22:06:50 ===
>> WX Failed loading
>>
>> "wxe_driver"@"/usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/wx-0.98/priv/i386-apple-darwin9.6.0"
>> ** exception error:
>>
>> {load_driver,"dlopen(/usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/wx-0.98/priv/i386-apple-darwin9.6.0/wxe_driver.so,
>> 2): Symbol not found:
>> __ZN10wxGLCanvas20MacVisibilityChangedEv\n Referenced from:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/wx-0.98/priv/i386-apple-darwin9.6.0/wxe_driver.so\n
>> Expected in: flat namespace\n"}
>> in function wxe_server:start/0
>> in call from wx:new/0
>> in call from sudoku_gui:new/1
>> in call from timer:tc/3
>> in call from sudoku:tc/3
>> in call from sudoku:init/1
>>
>> I didn't find the origin of this problem.
>> However, I searched and found the symbol was defined in the
>> wxWidgets library included with Mac OS X
>> (libwx_macud_gl-2.8.0.1.1.dylib). Why the library is not
>> dynamically loaded is a mystery to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> This interface runs the UI as a separate process (a
>> gen_server), it
>> allows you to specify the application GUI in XML which
>> makes it very
>> easy to design/modify/update. It allows you to pass in a
>> callback
>> module to use for the UI issued commands. So it's pretty
>> close to your
>> design target.
>>
>>
>> It looks very interesting.
>> However, my application will need to use a widespread
>> format, so any user that has basic skill in HTML can write
>> simple extensions.
>>
>>
>> The problem is that I only started development of this
>> library less
>> than a month ago, it's as yet unfinished, and as yet
>> badly documented
>> as it's a work in rapid progress.
>>
>> However you may wish to keep an eye on:
>>
>> http://github.com/komone/gx
>>
>>
>> I am interested in anything that touches close of far GUI
>> and Erlang.
>> I will have a look, thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Cam
>>
>>
>>
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