[clug] Latest version of VICI

[Bob Edwards]

On 01/05/18 19:00, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 18:16 +1000, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
> 
>> On 01/05/18 17:28, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 16:45 +1000, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 30/04/18 15:17, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 18:05 +1000, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 22:19 +1000, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For those that are interested, today I have placed the latest version of
>>>>>>> VICI onto SourceForge:
>>>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ocratato-vici/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brenton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, Take 2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have modified the way the build looks for Qt files so that there is
>>>>>> now a better chance of it building on various distributions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks very much to those that tried and failed on the previous version
>>>>>> - it provided useful information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brenton
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, apparently that also has a problem. Thanks to Owen for testing and
>>>>> reporting the problem.
>>>>> I have uploaded a fixed version vici-0.10.682
>>>>>
>>>>> Brenton
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Brenton,
>>>>
>>>> I have finally gotten around to looking at VICI (again - I last had
>>>> a look around 3 or 4 years ago...).
>>>>
>>>> I am building it in a Debian Stretch container, following much of your
>>>> README (from vici-0.10.682).
>>>>
>>>> My command is:
>>>> bob at vici:~/vici-0.10/build$ ../configure --prefix=$VICI -with-lua-pkg=lua53
>>>> ...
>>>> checking does moc work?... yes
>>>> checking can I compile moc_myqt.cpp?... yes
>>>> checking can I compile myqt.cpp?... yes
>>>> checking can I link against QT?... configure: error: couldn't link
>>>> configure: error: ../../../src/gth/configure failed for src/gth
>>>> bob at vici:~/vici-0.10/build$
>>>>
>>>> Looks like it can't find QT, but I am not sure what part of QT it is
>>>> looking for (ie. can it tell me what test actually failed?).
>>>>
>>>> Any tips?
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Bob Edwards.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> thanks for trying.
>>> You seem to have run into the same problem Owen has.
>>>
>>> It appears that Debian based systems have the Qt libraries installed in
>>> the standard location for most libraries which means the -L option
>>> should not be required, but for some reason the linker cannot find them.
>>>
>>> The actual error will be reported in $VICI/build/src/gth/config.log
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Brenton
>>>
>>
>> Hi Brenton,
>>
>> Any idea which one I should be looking for? Looks like I have 31 Qt5
>> libs installed:
>>
>> bob at vici:~$ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>> bob at vici:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ find . -type f | grep libQt5 | wc
>>        31      31     719
>>
>> (I _think_ they all came from:
>> bob at vici:~$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default )
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Bob Edwards.
>>
> 
> Bob,
> 
> A normal Qt5 development install should have the libraries required for
> VICI.
> For Qt5 it uses libQt5Core, libQt5Widgets, libQt5Gui, libQt5Svg and
> libQt5Test
> 
> In the test that fails it only needs libQt5Core but the others get
> included as part of the $QTLIBS variable.
> 
> I think I have enough info now to have another go at fixing it. Should
> be available by tomorrow evening.
> 
> Brenton
> 
> 

Thanks Brenton.

I do have all 5 of those Qt5 libs installed.

Look forward to trying the next version...

cheers,

Bob Edwards.