[En-Nut-Discussion] OS X configurator build problems

[Tom Armitage]

I've made some progress, I've managed to get everything to compile  
under Mac OS X, I had to drop back to using lua 5.0.3 rather than  
5.1.2 that darwin ports installed.

The command line nutconfigurator works fine but there's a problem  
with nutconf.

nutconf launches and gets stuck.  The splash screen, main window and  
a file open dialog box appear, but that's all.  The splash screen  
stays up, I can't select anything in the file open dialog box or the  
main window.  The only thing I can do is move the open dialog box  
around the screen, nothing is clickable on any of the windows.

I've looked into the nutconf code a bit and tried commenting out the  
splash screen to see if that helps, but I get the same result, just  
without the splash screen.

I've added some printf statememnts to the code to try and work out  
what is going on, the code appears to get stuck on the following line  
in at the end of NutConfApp::OnInit():

     m_docManager->CreateDocument(m_settings->m_configname, 0);

but I'm not convinced that's the real source of the problem, I'm just  
not sure where the code goes after this!

Any ideas to point me in the direction of the problem?  nutconf looks  
like it wants to work.

I'm using wxWidgets 2.8.4, lua 5.0.3, gcc 4.01, autoconf 2.59,  
automake 1.6.3.

Tom


On 27/07/2007, at 5:42 PM, ARMITAGE Tom wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to set up the latest nut/OS development  
> environment on
> Mac OS X 10.4.10 without much luck.
>
> Previously I've configured nut/OS by hand but this is error prone,  
> so I
> have been trying to compile the configurator as per the  
> instructions for
> Debian installation.  I was hoping to try and compile the GUI
> configurator, but will settle for the command line configurator if the
> GUI won't compile on OS X.
>
> I have downloaded the ethernut-4.3.3 source and I used darwin ports to
> install oxygen, graphviz, wxWidgets and lua and the OSXAVR tool chain
> installer to load the compiler and associated files etc.  I have the
> latest Mac developer tools installed (gcc etc).
>
> The problem comes about when I try and run ./configure in the base
> directory of the ethernut source, the process fails to correctly  
> detect
> the lua installation with the following messages:
>
> checking for library containing lua_open... no
> checking for library containing luaL_loadfile... no
>
> ./configure successfully finds the lua executable, but it can't  
> seem to
> find the library files it needs.  Because of this I am unable to build
> the configurator.
>
> I have tried installing lua from several different sources (darwin
> ports, fink, stand-alone installer, compiled from Xcode package and
> compiled and install from the source code by hand) but they all  
> give the
> same result - lua compiles correctly but the lua libraries can't be
> found by the ./configure script.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1) Am I trying to do something that just does not work, ie compile the
> configurator on OS X?
>
> 2) Are the libraries that ./configure cannot find the compiled  
> libraries
> (liblua5.1.so, liblua5.1.a etc) which are installed in /usr/local/ 
> lib by
> default by darwin ports or are there other libraries that need to be
> installed or lua packages to be installed? The Debian procedure for
> compiling from the source doesn't seem to indicate that I need to do
> anything more than "make macosx; sudo make install".
>
> 3) What is the default or proper location for the lua libraries?  Is
> there a way (perhaps an environment variable?) to set to force lua to
> find the libraries?
>
> 4) Do I need to modify the ./configure script or a make file to  
> force it
> to find the libraries?  If so which files and what changes do I make?
>
> 5) Has anyone managed to get the ./configure script to build the
> configurator tools on OS X??
>
> I have tried searching this discussion list and googling for  
> answers but
> come up empty handed (I think the OS X + nut/OS club is pretty small
> crowd!) and the documentation for lua isn't clear to me either.
>
> Thanks for any help/advice in advance, I'm not ready to give up on  
> this
> yet!
>
> Tom Armitage
>
> --
> Tom Armitage
> Senior Electronics Engineer
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