[Xastir] Compile issues

Sun Sep 30 05:22:51 EDT 2007

Thanks all for the replies .. Some of these are good and useful indeed..

Ive actually got a working version of 1.90 xastir on there now but without
raster maps. This sounds like it would be easy to fix with imagemagick but
the development files still allude me. I think its actually libmagick5-dev
that I am looking for but if I try and install that it had many dependancy
issues which are not resolvable. I looked at some of the dependancies and
they also have depandancies. Its another one of those dependancy blackholes
that just gets to be a bigger pit as you look down it..

Now I will tell you how I got 1.90 going.. Dont cringe too much but I loaded
a binary for 1.40 xastir that was premade for this old distro. and then
compiled 1.90 on top of that. Although they have different directory
structures I deleted the 1.40 xastir binary executable and I seem to have a
working 1.90. Pretty rough I know and very cludgey but obviuosly something
is in the 1.40 binary which fixes the segfaults I had .. Its not the
ultimate and in time I can likely pull apart the 1.40 binary and see just
whats in there. It proves something I guess..

In the mean time I dont have any raster maps till I get 1.90 to compile with
imagemagick development files. Ive found the imagemagick web site. They have
a source file up there that I could download and try and compile. Its about
6 or so megs I think but are the development files in there ??

ImageMagick-6.3.5-10.i386.rpm is about 4 megs. I could use alien to convert
this to a deb but are the development files in there ??

Tony Hunt  VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Carver" <kf4lvz at yahoo.com>
To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Compile issues

> The apt utilities includes a function called apt-cache
> that will let you search for packages and give you a
> hand.
>
> Usage would be:
>
> apt-cache search <partial package name>
>
> For example, searching for anything with shapelib:
>
> apt-cache search shapelib*
>
> Yields:
>
> gpsmanshp - A Tcl interface to shapelib
> libshp-dev - C API for reading and writing ArcView
> Shapefiles
> libshp1 - C API for reading and writing ArcView
> Shapefiles
> shapelib - C API for reading and writing ArcView
> Shapefiles
>
>
> You can also do this with libmagick* and you'll be
> able to spot the development libraries.
>
> I'm not sure what the segfaulting is from but you
> don't need ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick or even
> geotiff to initially start Xastir.  However, dbfawk is
> needed to parse some data like the maps.  You may have
> to download the shapelib source code separately
> (outside of Debian's apt system) to get that working.
>
>
>
>
> --- Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rod .. I is learning alot still ..
> >
> > To answer your question with another question..
> > I have installed imagemagick  libmotif  libmotif-dev
> >  but I have no idea
> > what the name of the image magick development file
> > is.
> > Bear in mind this is equivalent to a Debian v3.0
> > Woody system. I notice
> > that libmagick5 is installed with another package
> > (probably imagemegick) .
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/source/sarge/imagemagick
> > Just looking at that web page maybee there is a
> > libmagick5-dev package at a
> > guess for woody in the archives ??
> >  Maybee if  Hamish is watching he will know whats
> > missing ..
> >
> > It nearly ran last night after a make install ..
> > Came up with the xastir
> > window and then segfaulted .. I have been looking at
> > the libraries needed
> > and trolling the debian website for clues but
> > excatly what the
> > library/dependancies names are isnt allways easy to
> > figure out although Ive
> > managed to make some progress since the last email..
> >
> > When the configure finnishes it says there is no
> > imagemagick support so
> > theres a clue.
> >
> > Here are the warnings and clues
> >
> > "Warning can not find image magick include files"
> > (this is probably the
> > killer by what you say Rod)
> > "Warning  geotiff requires libproj" ---   I have not
> > been able to find a
> > libproj myself
> > "Warning dbfawk requires both pcre and shapelib" -- 
> > I cant find these in
> > debian either
> >
> > When I run xastir up it segfaults with these
> > comments
> > "Perhaps no XPM or imagemagick library support is
> > installed" which sorta
> > connects back to where we started ..
> >
> > So what am I looking for here in the dark exactly ??
> >
> > Tony Hunt VK5AH
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rodney Baker" <rodney.baker at optusnet.com.au>
> > To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>
> > Cc: "Xastir mailing list" <xastir at xastir.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Compile issues
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, September 28, 2007 09:48, Tony Hunt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Heres the results from the configure.. The make
> > does not seem to produce
> > > > a binary. And it configures with no support for
> > anything really. The
> > > > config.logs are here
> > http://www.users.on.net/~wavetel/temp/configlogs.zip
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I can see its got issues with shapefil.h  pcre.h
> >   XpmI.h  gdal.h
> > > > db.h   magick/api.h Now this is familiar
> > "WARNING: *** Cannot find
> > > > ImageMagick include
> > > > files:  Building w/o ImageMagick support. ***"
> > > > And thats just v1.6.0
> > >
> > > Tony,
> > >
> > > Have you installed the ImageMagick-devel packages?
> > You need not only to
> > > install the base packages but also the development
> > packages for each of
> > > the dependencies. These contain the missing header
> > files that are needed
> > > for other applications to compile against the
> > various libraries.
> > >
> > > You should enable the relevant dev repositories in
> > the apt repository
> > > configuration file and then do apt-get
> > <package>-devel. If, however, you
> > > have compiled each of the dependencies from source
> > the headers will also
> > > have been installed. You may need to specify where
> > the headers have been
> > > installed with the appropriate parameters passed
> > to configure (do
> > > configure --help to get the list of available
> > switches).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Rodney.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Maybee its just too hard to make it go on this
> > system but there is good
> > > > reason to try. If I can get it going I would
> > like to make a deb file
> > with
> > > > checkinstall
> > > >
> > > > Tony VK5AH
> >
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