wxformbuilder not able to find libs?

Sat Jun 27 21:02:54 UTC 2009

Hi Marc,

I am kind of surprised because wxFormBuilder has made it to version 3.0 with this type of make system. The readme has a section on how to run a script to generate a make file, yet I could not find that script!

There seems to be another script I am to run before make, not sure? because I recall it has a prefix pre to whatever it was called (not at my linux box now).

About ldconfig, I have been doing things this was, making sure to call it after I do my 'make install', always!

So I am still not sure why I need to define and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I ended up sticking this into my '/etc/bashrc' files so it would always be set. Now a day later, I don't feel comfortable with this idea so when I get home tonight I will remove it because I don't want to break my system by confusing it to use some other lib. I say this because I had to rebuild glibc so I got one that came with my system and another one from source that I needed to build CodeBlocks my C++ IDE. Possibly the new glibc if loaded will break old apps!

I think I need to rebuild (wxFormBuilder) because it's broken. I run the app, I do not see a toolbox to be able to start creating resources. I don't even see that in the menu anywhere!

I agree that documentation is poorly lagging in some/many open source projects.... this is my greatest annoyance! The project page has a wiki, I just noticed and I don't see any instructions on how to build from source. Since they also have a forum I will give that a try... I guess none of the developers want to take 5-10 mins out of their time once a day and possibly write up a how to compile and install wxForumBuilder!

On the forum now, I am reading someone else having issues on fedora 9 with gcc 4.3 which is going to break with old code because of strictness....lol, love open source!

I was almost seduce to install fedora 11, but it will not install on my older system with 384M of ram...I will stick to my base CentOS 5.3 tool chain so I don't waste time and hoping the open source community will catch up with C++ compliant code that will not break on gcc 4.3.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

--- On Sat, 6/27/09, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: wxformbuilder not able to find libs?
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 12:59 PM
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:26:17 -0700
> (PDT)
> Rajinder Yadav <devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It seems the make file for wxformbuilder still needs
> work! There is
> > no make install step.
> 
> What's its version number?
> 
> > To fix the problem, I had to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> point to the
> > runtime wxgtk+ and wxformbuilder libs ...starting to
> get an
> > understanding how this works.
> > 
> > I also had to create sym-links to some xml files, if
> it was not for
> > the descriptive error messages with path to file, I
> would not have
> > figured out the last step.
> > 
> > I wonder how much time and energy is lost on
> incomplete steps, the
> > developers must love to answer FAQ? Even reading the
> INSTALL notes
> > didn't help me.
> 
> Welcome to the wonderful world of open-source software ;)
> These
> are the kinds of things you should expect to put up with if
> the project
> is still in alpha, beta, or is not at version 1.0 yet. And,
> some
> projects are just better documented than others; after a
> slew of people
> hop onto the mailing list to ask the same questions,
> programmers soon
> learn the value of documentation. 
> 
> Anyway, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a common Unix/Linux thing
> (on other Unix
> flavors it's known as SHARED_LIB, etc.), it's not tied to
> any particular
> project. It's extra search paths for linked libraries, as
> you now know.
> It's mostly used for when users want to install things and
> don't have
> root access, which I always do because I have access to
> school machines
> but no root. For example, I normally install things with a
> prefix
> of /home/lanctot . So I have to put /home/lanctot/lib in
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and usually have to compile with
> -I/home/lanctot/inc. 
> 
> There is an alternative if you have root access. Add the
> link path
> to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig. Some distros
> even
> put /usr/local/lib in there by default, and you probably
> should if
> you're installing things from source with /usr/local
> prefix. 
> 
> I can't think of any reason to prefer one over the other,
> though I'm
> sure there are reasons. man ldconfig :) Either way, it's
> not something
> you'll find in an INSTALL file because it's "common
> knowledge". 
> 
> So this won't only fix your problems with wxforbuilder.. it
> will fix
> all future problems too :) 
> 
> Marc
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