Compile on Ubuntu 12.04lts

[Nerox]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile HOT for Ubuntu 12.04lts but I run into a problem with compiling SOP_Star.C to begin with.

I installeded csh, g++

Then when I run: hcustom SOP_Star.C

I get:

Making SOP_Star.o and /home/nick/houdini12.1/dso/SOP_Star.so from SOP_Star.C

Assembler messages:

Fatal error: can't create SOP_Star.o: Permission denied

Compile failed

To me it seems that it can't write the file to my home dir but I find that odd because the dir rights are as open as they can be. Any suggestions?

drwxrwxrwx 35 nick nick 4096 Jan 17 13:37 nick/

drwxrwxrwx 7 nick nick 4096 Jan 17 15:42 houdini12.1/

drwxrwxrwx 2 nick nick 4096 Jan 17 16:12 dso/

[Nerox]

I've changed the rights of /opt/hfs.X.Y/toolkit/samples/SOP and now I'm one step ahead. Though I still run into trouble:

hcustom SOP_Star.C

Making SOP_Star.o and /home/nick/houdini12.1/dso/SOP_Star.so from SOP_Star.C

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLU

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXi

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Link failed

Any suggestion is more then welcome :-)

[graham]

You're missing the various development libraries necessary to compile.

Something like libX11-dev, libGL-dev, etc...

You should be able to find them from the package manager.

[Nerox]

Thanks graham, any idea how I can figure out which libraries I exactly need?

I've found

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall[/CODE]

But that wants to install:

build-essential checkinstall dpkg-dev libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libdpkg-perl libtimedate-perl

and non of the once you suggest are in that list. So I guess I shouldn't install that.

Edited January 17, 2013 by Nerox

[graham]

The libs are basically the things it says it is missing, minus the leading -l : GLU, GL, X11, Xext, Xi

If you search the manager for those, usuually lib{name}-dev you should be able to install them. The graphical package manager might work better for this.

[Nerox]

Ah! that makes sense :-)

To be honest I never realized that those were packages. The leading 'l' is a bit misleading as well.

Nevertheless it did the trick!

So the main things I installed is:

sudo apt-get install csh
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install libglu-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl
sudo apt-get install libGL-dev
sudo apt-get install libX11-dev
sudo apt-get install libXext-dev
sudo apt-get install libXi-dev
sudo apt-get install libXi-dev
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[lukeiamyourfather]

sudo apt-get install csh
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install libglu-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl
sudo apt-get install libGL-dev
sudo apt-get install libX11-dev
sudo apt-get install libXext-dev
sudo apt-get install libXi-dev
sudo apt-get install libXi-dev
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I'm glad you got it working. In the future you can install them all at once if you want to save a little time.

[CODE]
sudo apt-get install csh g++ libglu-dev libgl-dev libgl libGL-dev libX11-dev libXext-dev libXi-dev
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