nanogui: Thread: building Microwindows on SuSE 5.3

Please excuse me if this is a Really Dumb Question....

I'm having difficulty building Microwindows 0.87 on SuSE 5.3. I've changed
the 'config' file and tried running 'configure'.
This falls over immediately with file not found which I believe is due to
'#!/usr/bin/wish -f' at the head of 'configure'.

What is 'wish' and where can I get it?? (not listed on linuxapps and no
mention of requirements in the README or INSTALL).

I note that this has changed since the 0.pre87 stuff - so I guess It's
allowable for the documentation may a little out of date :-)

Simon Wood

Hardware Engineer 
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
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Simon,

First, you don't need to run configure to build microwindows, just editing
the config file will do the job.

Configure is a GUI front-end to edit the properties in the config file. It is
written in Tk (Wish is the interpreter of Tk) which is part of the Tcl/Tk
language. You can find this package at:
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/
Surprising that this package is not included in a linux distro .... :-(

Martin Jolicoeur
GVT PRoject
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Simon Wood wrote:

> Please excuse me if this is a Really Dumb Question....
>
> I'm having difficulty building Microwindows 0.87 on SuSE 5.3. I've changed
> the 'config' file and tried running 'configure'.
> This falls over immediately with file not found which I believe is due to
> '#!/usr/bin/wish -f' at the head of 'configure'.
>
> What is 'wish' and where can I get it?? (not listed on linuxapps and no
> mention of requirements in the README or INSTALL).
>
> I note that this has changed since the 0.pre87 stuff - so I guess It's
> allowable for the documentation may a little out of date :-)
>
> Simon Wood
>
> Hardware Engineer
> Pace Micro Technology plc
> Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
> West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
> Tel : +44(0)1274 532000  Fax: +44(0)1274 532029
>
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:Please excuse me if this is a Really Dumb Question....
:
:I'm having difficulty building Microwindows 0.87 on SuSE 5.3. 
:I've changed
:the 'config' file and tried running 'configure'.
:This falls over immediately with file not found which I 
:believe is due to
:'#!/usr/bin/wish -f' at the head of 'configure'.
:

I don't know where wish is.  I wish I knew.


:What is 'wish' and where can I get it?? (not listed on linuxapps and no
:mention of requirements in the README or INSTALL).


You don't need ./configure to setup Microwindows.  Just edit
the config file manually, then type "make clean cleandepend; make"

The INSTALL docs try to explain what's what in the config
file.  ./configure is only used for an X11 based configure.


:
:I note that this has changed since the 0.pre87 stuff - so I guess It's
:allowable for the documentation may a little out of date :-)

I'll take a look at it and add some help

Regards,

Greg


::

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
> file.  ./configure is only used for an X11 based configure.

Perhaps it would be more intuitive if you called it something like xconfig
rather than configure, which most people probably expect to be a GNU 
autoconf configure script when they first see it.

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I'll change it to ./xconfig if noone objects... Martin?

Greg

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:On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
:> file.  ./configure is only used for an X11 based configure.
:
:Perhaps it would be more intuitive if you called it something 
:like xconfig
:rather than configure, which most people probably expect to be a GNU 
:autoconf configure script when they first see it.
:
:--------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
:: Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
:-------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------
:
:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:

> :Please excuse me if this is a Really Dumb Question....
> :
> :I'm having difficulty building Microwindows 0.87 on SuSE 5.3. 
> :I've changed
> :the 'config' file and tried running 'configure'.
> :This falls over immediately with file not found which I 
> :believe is due to
> :'#!/usr/bin/wish -f' at the head of 'configure'.
> :
> 
> I don't know where wish is.  I wish I knew.

LOL....according to my Solaris man, it's a tk windowing shell.
[SNIP]

Go ahead ... should have been done before ... (it's just less intuitive
that "xconfig" is an executable though)
But if the "make xconfig" option is documented, that will be fine with me
...

Martin Jolicoeur
GVT Project
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Greg Haerr wrote:

> I'll change it to ./xconfig if noone objects... Martin?
>
> Greg
>
> :-----Original Message-----
> :From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
> :Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:14 AM
> :To: Greg Haerr
> :Cc: ####@####.####
> :Subject: RE: building Microwindows on SuSE 5.3
> :
> :
> :On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
> :> file.  ./configure is only used for an X11 based configure.
> :
> :Perhaps it would be more intuitive if you called it something
> :like xconfig
> :rather than configure, which most people probably expect to be a GNU
> :autoconf configure script when they first see it.
> :
> :--------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
> :: Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
> :-------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------
> :
> :
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