Re: FTGL dependency on Mac OS X (was: new snapshot?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, February 09, 2009, at 03:23PM, "Jonathan Stickel" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>Shai Ayal wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>> On  9-Feb-2009, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> | On 2/6/09 address@hidden wrote:
>>>> | >      +. Graphics:
>>>> | >       + Refactor base_properties
>>>> | >       + Specific types for properties with improved property value
>>>> | >         checking
>>>> | >       + Implement the addprops function allow additional properties
>>>> | >         to objects
>>>> | >       + add the hggroup object that has no fixed properties for use
>>>> | >         by barseries, etc.
>>>> | >       + Add callback DeleteFcn/CreateFcn to objects
>>>> | >       + Allow listener functions to be added to objects
>>>> | >       + Clean separation of backend from property database
>>>> | >       + Implement experimental backend based on OpenGL and GUI
>>>> | >         toolkit
>>>> | | I have been interested for some time now to hack around with the new
>>>> | OpenGL backend.  However, the FTGL text dependency was not detected |
>>>> properly on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11).  After a recent mercurial update, | this
>>>> problem still exists:
>>>> | | configure: WARNING: "FTGL library not found. Native renderer will not
>>>> | have on-screen text"
>>>> | configure: WARNING:
>>>> | configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile
>>>> native
>>>> | configure: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native graphics
>>>> | configure: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be
>>>> able
>>>> | configure: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands
>>>> | configure: WARNING:
>>>> | | I do have ftgl-2.1.2 installed via Macports.  Anyway, it would be nice
>>>> | if this could be resolved before the next snapshot.  I remember quite a |
>>>> long thread about this problem some time ago, but I don't remember what |
>>>> the conclusion was.  I am willing to help debug if someone can suggest |
>>>> something for me to try.
>>>>
>>>> It's unlikely to be resolved unless it's reported, and this is the
>>>> first I'ver heard of the problem in quite some time as I thought we
>>>> fixed it.
>>>>
>>>> You could start by showing the relevant part of config.log, so we
>>>> could see why the test fails.
>>>>
>>>> As I recall, I used to have to add
>>>>
>>>>  -I/usr/include/freetype2
>>>>
>>>> to CPPFLAGS on my system when running configure, but I think we fixed
>>>> that problem as it no longer seems to be required.
>>>>
>>> Here is what seems to be the FTGL test in config.log:
>>>
>>> configure:12370: checking FTGL/ftgl.h usability
>>> configure:12387: g++ -c -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp >&5
>>> configure:12394: $? = 0
>>> configure:12408: result: yes
>>> configure:12412: checking FTGL/ftgl.h presence
>>> configure:12427: g++ -E  -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/freetype2
>>> -I/opt/local/include conftest.cpp
>>> configure:12434: $? = 0
>>> configure:12448: result: yes
>>> configure:12476: checking for FTGL/ftgl.h
>>> configure:12485: result: yes
>>> configure:12659: checking for FTGLTextureFont in -lftgl
>>> configure:12699: g++ -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include  -I/opt/local/include
>>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
>>> -L/opt/local/lib -lmetis conftest.cpp -lhdf5 -lz -lm  -Wl,-framework
>>> -Wl,Carbon -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype -lz
>>> -Wl,-framework,CoreServices -Wl,-framework,ApplicationServices -lftgl >&5
>>> conftest.cpp: In function 'int main()':
>>> conftest.cpp:81: error: 'FTGLTextureFont' was not declared in this scope
>>> conftest.cpp:81: error: expected `;' before 'font'
>>> configure:12706: $? = 1
>>> configure: failed program was:
>>> | /* confdefs.h.  */
><snip>
>>> | }
>>> configure:12731: result: no
>>>
>>>
>> It looks like you have HAVE_FTGL_FTGL_H but not HAVE_FTGL_UPPERCASE,
>> so only FTGL/ftgl.h gets included, and not any header with the
>> FTGLTextureFont.
>> 
>> can you please post the output of
>> grep FTGLTextureFont /usr/include/FTGL/*
>> 
>> (assuming the normal include sir is /usr/include)
>> 
>
>Sure.  Here is what I get:
>
>$ cd /opt/local/include/FTGL/
>$ grep FTGLTextureFont *
>FTGLTextureFont.h:#ifndef     __FTGLTextureFont__
>FTGLTextureFont.h:#define     __FTGLTextureFont__
>FTGLTextureFont.h: * FTGLTextureFont is a specialisation of the FTFont 
>class for handling
>FTGLTextureFont.h:class  FTGL_EXPORT FTGLTextureFont : public FTFont
>FTGLTextureFont.h:        FTGLTextureFont( const char* fontFilePath);
>FTGLTextureFont.h:        FTGLTextureFont( const unsigned char 
>*pBufferBytes, size_t bufferSizeInBytes);
>FTGLTextureFont.h:        virtual ~FTGLTextureFont();
>FTGLTextureFont.h:#endif // __FTGLTextureFont__
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan

I'm no help, but I thought I'd mention the same problem exists for OSX 10.5.x 
with FTGL installed via Fink.

Ben