[Swarm-Support] Re: fixes for the swarmapps2.1.1 on panther

[Bill Northcott]

Hi Matthew

If you have installed all the libraries from my web site then Swarm and 
the apps should build from the cvs without trouble.

If you have issues, please let us know what they are with specific 
error messages and so on.  There is no point wasting time on things we 
know the answers for.

Marcus Daniels has done some recent work to get Swarm Java working with 
Panther and it is possible that it is not all checked into the cvs yet. 
 As soon as I can find a few hours, I will rebuild the MacOS binaries.  
I have been very busy on other things and was waiting for gcc-4.0 to 
become reasonably stable.

Bill Northcott

On 18/11/2004, at 5:54 AM, Matthew Russell wrote:

> Bill,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'm having a lot of trouble building from 
> CVS,but I'll keep working on it as time permits and see what I can do. 
> Are you all still interested in any extra help or is the project 
> slowly trickling away? I'd be interested in helping to maintain the 
> specific Mac OS X libraries/documentation and even helping with the 
> new webpage development (the most confusing site I've ever been to 
> because of all of the links for download with caveats to not actually 
> use those links and instead use CVS) if you all can use it. My M.S. 
> Thesis is very much to do with swarm intelligence, and I've been 
> meaning to get involved in an open source project for some time now.
>
> Let me know what's going on in the swarm world, and once I'm more up 
> to speed with the specifics for Mac OS X, I'd be glad to 
> contribute/help.
>
> v/r
> Matthew
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 12:44PM, Bill Northcott 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi Matthew
> >
> > Thanks for your email.
> >
> > The 2.1.1 library and applications are very out of date at this point.
> > Please get more recent snapshots or better still, pull the examples 
> > off
> > the cvs on Savannah.
> >
> > The current cvs code should all be functional.  If you find a problem
> > with it please let us know.
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Bill Northcott
> >
> >
> > On 17/11/2004, at 6:52 AM, Matthew Russell wrote:
> >
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > I thought you might want these fixes. I'm not sure if they're fixed 
> > > in
> > > your CVS or not but they weren't with the 2.1.1 of swarm apps  I
> > > downloaded.
> > >
> > > from swarmapps-2.1.1/hello-world/v02 you get this warning:
> > >
> > > PplObserverSwarm.m:88: warning: invalid receiver type `void '
> > > PplObserverSwarm.m:88: error: void value not ignored as it ought to 
> > > be
> > >
> > > the fix is to un-nest the messaging structure
> > >
> > > //[[[numberLeft setLabel: "Number Left"] setColor: "green"]
> > >   //  setWidth: 3];
> > >   [numberLeft setLabel: "Number Left"];
> > >   [numberLeft setColor: "green"];
> > >   [numberLeft setWidth: 3];
> > >
> > >
> > > for hello-world/v03,  i had to comment out the APPLIBS=-lspace in
> > > order to get rid of a ld error.
> > >
> > > then i had a run time crash when i ran it and clicked on "START" 
> > > which
> > > was
> > >
> > > ActiveGraph not initialized properly*** execution terminating due to
> > > error
> > > ../../../../src/defobj/Symbol.m:187 -[Error_c raiseEvent:]
> > > Abort trap
> > >
> > > I haven't figured this one out yet but I think it has to do with the
> > > EZGraph being initialized incorrectly? I hope to figure this out
> > > pretty soon.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I hope these fixes help you. If you already knew about them,
> > > then sorry for the waste of time.
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > >
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