[Gmsh] Gmsh build on RHEL4 is mssing GUI!

[Jamshid Gharib]

Dear Christophe,

Thank you for the reply.
I went ahead and got FLTK 1.3.0 package. It is late and I will try to 
install FLTK tomorrow
and redo my Gmsh build. Now that you have confirmed the culprit is 
likely missing FLTK,
I am hopeful that tomorrow I'll be lucky and get my Gmsh successfully 
built with GUI.
But as I was checking the Gmsh source, I noticed that there is a Qt 
directory as well.
*Does this mean that I must also have Qt installed on my machine to build
Gmsh with GUI?* *Please let me know.*
Well, I wish you a good weekend and thanks again for your help. I'll 
keep you
posted on my progress.

-- 
Best Regards,
_________________________________________________________
Jamshid Gharib, Ph.D.
Phone: 408 229-0183
Cell:  408 768-1853
Email: jdgharib at gmail.com
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-------- Original Message --------

Subject: 	Re: [Gmsh] Gmsh build on RHEL4 is mssing GUI!
Date: 	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:42 +0100
From: 	Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>
To: 	Jamshid Gharib <jdgharib at gmail.com>
CC: 	gmsh at geuz.org



On 17 Feb 2012, at 06:01, Jamshid Gharib wrote:

 > Dear Christophe,
 >
 > Good evening from San Jose, California.
 > I am hoping you have a little spare time to help me out with my Gmsh 
problem,
 > namely, my built Gmsh on a RHEL4 (Redhat Enterprse Linux v4) has no GUI!
 > The problem is most likely due to my unfamiliarity with Gmsh as well 
as cmake,
 > but I hope you can graciously tell me how I can solve the problem.
 > Thanks in adavance for all your help.
 >
 > Following is a somewhat detailed description of the problem.
 > The Linux binary on the Gmsh site failed to run on my Linux machine 
with the
 > following message:
 > ... /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found ...
 > I suspect this is due to Gmsh binary being built with a newer version
 > of library.
 > My linux is an old machine running 32bit RHEL4. Here is uname -a
 > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.EL #1 Wed Jul 12 23:16:43 EDT
 > 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 >
 > I thought no problem and went ahead and built Gmsh from its source
 > file (version 2.5.0).
 > In building Gmsh, I used all defaults; all seemed to go well and gmsh 
executable
 > was created. However, my resulting gmsh executable has no GUI!
 > For example, trying the follwoing:
 > gmsh PanelPatch.bdf
 > the follwoing are displayed:
 > 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 > Info : Running
 > '/tmp/scsi1/z-ztmpdir/z-t1/gmsh-2.5.0-source/z-build/gmsh
 > PanelPatch.bdf' [1 node(s), max. 1 thread(s)]
 > Info : Started on Thu Feb 16 13:56:47 2012
 > Info : Reading 'PanelPatch.bdf'...
 > Info : 18 vertices
 > Info : Done reading 'PanelPatch.bdf'
 > Info : Stopped on Thu Feb 16 13:56:47 2012
 > 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 >
 > I dug into stuff on Gmsh webpage and internet, and found that Gmsh uses
 > FLTK for its GUI. I then checked the log file of Gmsh nighhtly build 
and saw
 > in the file, there are references to Fltk being looked for and its 
objects being
 > created. For example:
 > -- Found Fltk
 > -- Using fltk-config script for Fltk 1.3
 >
 > However, when I examined my cmake results (copy attached for your 
inspection),
 > I noticed that there is NO reference to Fltk stuff at all, which I
 > suppose is the
 > reason reason why my built Gmsh has no GUI.
 > As you can see from the attached log file, my Gmsh configuration does NOT
 > have any reference to Fltk, whereas the Gmsh nightly log does.
 >
 > What am I doing wrong? Could the problem be that FLTK is pehaps not
 > installed on my machine? How can check this out?


Hi Jamshid - Indeed you probably don't have the "development" package 
(libraries+include files) for FLTK installed on your machine. Launch 
your package manager and check for things like "fltk", "fltk-dev" or 
similar and install them. Then run cmake again.



 > I greatly appreciate any help you can give me to fix this problem and
 > get my Gmsh
 > to have the GUI as it should.
 > Thanks.
 >
 > Best Regards,
 >
 > Jamshid gharib
 > 
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