From: Ot <otski@...>
Date: 2002-12-31T12:39:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Fox, FXRuby and fxscintilla

Phew!!

With help from Daniel Carrera and Michael Libby, I managed to complete the 
task of building Fox, FxScintilla and FXRuby from source.

For the benefit of other novices who may come after me, I'd like to add a few 
things that got me.

On Mandrake 9.0, you will need to install the following OpenGL related 
packages:

XFree86-devel-4.2.1-3mdk.rpm
libMesaglut3-4.0.3-6mdk.rpm
libMesaglut3-devel-4.0.3-6mdk.rpm


On Saturday 28 December 2002 11:52 am, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> To sidestep the issue of binary incompatibilities for this RPM or that
> RPM, I would just go straight to the source (literally). Download the
> latest source tarballs for fox-1.0, FXRuby-1.0 and FXScintilla-1.x.
>
> Start by getting a working FOX installation before moving on to
> FXScintilla (which would be step 2) or FXRuby (step 3). For most
> *recent* Linux distributions this usually just involves:
>
> 	tar xzf fox-1.0.29.tar.gz
> 	cd fox-1.0.29
> 	./configure --with-opengl=opengl
> 	make
> 	make install
>
> and then running some of the test programs (in the fox-1.0.29/tests
> subdirectory) to make sure things are working. Do not proceed past this
> step until you're satisfied that things are OK.
>

As 'root', you need to add the following line to the end of /etc/ld.so.conf

/usr/local/lib

Save the file and run 'ldconfig' before proceeding.
Exit from 'root'.

> Once that's working, move on to the FXScintilla build. Again, if you
> have a good FOX installation this should just involve the usual:
>
> 	tar xzf fxscintilla-1.49.tar.gz
> 	cd fxscintilla-1.49
> 	./configure
> 	make
> 	make install
>
> I am not the FXScintilla developer/maintainer, but I think Gilles still
> has a little test program somewhere in there that you can run to see if
> it's working.
>
> The last step is to build FXRuby. For most cases (under Linux) this
> should involve:
>
> 	tar xzf FXRuby-1.0.17.tar.gz
> 	cd FXRuby-1.0.17
> 	ruby install.rb config -- \
> 	    --with-fxscintilla-include=/usr/local/include/fxscintilla \
> 	    --with-fxscintilla-lib=/usr/local/lib
> 	ruby install.rb setup
> 	ruby install.rb install
>
> If you leave out the '--with-fxscintilla-xxx' options it will *not*
> build FXScintilla support into FXRuby and as a result FreeRIDE will not
> work. I will probably change this for the next FXRuby release, so that
> it snoops around a little to try to automatically detect the presence of
> FXScintilla in a few likely places -- but for now you have to manually
> configure those directories as shown.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle