Re: [Gsl-shell-info] Building and Installing from Source on Ubunut 12.04

[Francesco Abbate]

2013/8/12 Martin Felis <address@hidden>:
> Hi there,
>
> just stumbled over gsl-shell and instantly got curious about it and
> dearly hope to make good use of this fine composition of software!

Hi Martin,

I'm glad that you are interested in gsl shell, I hope you will find it useful.

> When trying to build it under Ubuntu 12.04 I ran into a few bumps that
> I'd like to share and how to resolve them. Some of the things are
> already hinted in INSTALL, however it lacked the setting of the LUA_PATH
> which resulted in the error:
>
> gsl-shell: module 'gslext' not found:
>         no field package.preload['gslext']
>
> First of all you need the following packages installed to make the
> compilation work:
>
> libagg-dev
> libgsl0-dev
> libreadline-dev
> libfreetype6-dev
>
> If you want to install it other than the default /usr/local you have to
> edit the file makeconfig and set your desired path in the variable PREFIX.

Thank you for sharing that. I probably need to update the INSTALL file
with more accurate informations :-)

The list of needed package is probably not exhaustive, you need to add:

libx11-dev

and for the FOX GUI

libfox-1.6-dev

In addition it is probably a good idea to install also libopenblas-dev
since these are much better optimized then gslcblas included with the
GSL library.

> After running a successful "make" and "make install" the files are
> installed. To be able for gsl-shell to find your scripts you have to add
> paths to the LUA_PATH environment variable. These are the following:

You should not need to set LUA_PATH. Just set PREFIX in makeconfig as
you suggest, than make && make install. The you can invoke directly
gsl shell without setting any variable.

I've just tested that with the vanilla gsl shell source code and it
does work out of the box (setting PREFIX to /tmp/local):

------------
GSL Shell 2.3.0, Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Francesco Abbate
GNU Scientific Library, Copyright (C) The GSL Team
LuaJIT 2.0.1 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 SSE3 ATOM fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc sink fuse

Documentation available at http://www.nongnu.org/gsl-shell/doc/.
To obtain help on a function or object type: help(func).
Type demo() to see the lists of demo.

> package.path
./?.lua;./templates/?.lua.in;/tmp/local/share/luajit-2.0.1/?.lua;/tmp/local/share/gsl-shell/2.3/?.lua;/tmp/local/share/gsl-shell/2.3/?/init.lua;/tmp/local/share/gsl-shell/2.3/templates/?.lua.in;/tmp/local/share/gsl-shell/2.3/?.lua;/tmp/local/share/gsl-shell/2.3/?/init.lua
------------

> After this you should be able to run gsl-shell from your favourite
> terminal emulator.


I really hope that gsl shell users don't need to set such a
complicated variable just to use gsl shell! :-)

Francesco