[Fluxus] newbie problems

[Stephen Halter]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a newb myself, but maybe my advice can hold you over
until dave and/or gabor get to this. I don't have any experience with
fluxus on osx so I can't help you there, but I'm sure someone will be
able to help you get the error output. Starting the app from the
command line would probably be a good start if you can figure out how
to do that.

As far as Ubuntu goes, that is a little more up my alley. I know the
devs had been recently working on a .dev for intreped/jaunty that I
haven't had a chance to test yet, but can be found here:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus_0.16rc3-1_i386.deb

I just wish they had this when I originally installed fluxus, but I
guess building from source is a valuable "experience." As far as your
actual build error, is it possible that despite installing libode, you
didn't install the headers (i.e. libode-dev).

I took the liberty to look up the fPIC gcc flag, and it appears that
it is required for "Position-Independent Code" shared libraries.
Searching google for gcc fPIC will return a wealth of information, and
Gentoo has docs that look promising for figuring out how to fix your
error found here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3.
I don't really have time to grok it all, but maybe it will be useful
to you.

Sorry if this isn't helpful, but I figured I'd do what I can.

-Stephen

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Emilio Zamudio Murillo
<oilime666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I've been testing live coding apps for a while and discovered fluxus. It
> seems to be the kind of system I need but unfortunately I can't get it to
> work on my laptop (I'm using a macbook-not pro).
>
> First, I downloaded the dmg for osx from the website, and it loads but
> crashes every single time after a while, even if i don't type anything. I
> don't know how to get error logs on osx, but I have this same kind of
> crashes with other apps that use opengl (such as blender) so It might be an
> apple problem? (I'm using os x 10.5.6). Anyone with the same kind of laptop
> has any clues on this? I tried with and without jack and that doesn't seem
> to make any difference.
>
> Second, I tried to compile it on Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bits) on the same machine.
> I downloaded the source from the web page, installed the needed libraries
> with the correct config (i think) and got stuck with the folowing error when
> I run scons:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libode.a(box.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against
> `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
> -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib/libode.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [modules/fluxus-engine/fluxus-engine_ss.so] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
>
> I honestly don't know what that means. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Emilio.
>
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