The icon thing is interesting. I have a Mac mini running OS 10.12.3. I
installed j64-806 on it according to instructions. It was easy compared to
earlier releases, with the icons appearing on the desktop & all working.
Unfortunately :-( the processor is not new and doesn't support avx.
My small problem is with my new Dell xps 13, running ubuntu 16.04 (I got
it with linux installed). Installing j64-806 goes smoothly and the three
icons appear on the desktop. Jqt, which is what I normally use is fine.
However, if I click on jc806 or jhs806, I get a window which contains the
message "Unable to find a shell". The windows do not function. I can run
jconsole or start jhs by going to thr j65-806 directory and running
jconsole.sh or bin/jsh (there is no jhs.sh file). Would be nice if the jc
and jhs icons could be coaxed to work.
... But really nice to have a trouble-free Mac install.
Patrick
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
Never mind … ‘sorta’ …
I just noticed icons jc80.app, jhs806.app, and jqt806.app on my desktop; they
had been obscured by other open windowx, including the browser whose
instructions for installing J I had been following!
These 3 icons DO work. And when I double-click jqt806.app, then jqt menus DO work as expeted.
Needless to say, this business of two sets of .app icons — one in the j806 bin
folder and the other on the desktop — is ocnfusing. The docs need to be amended
to indicate that these newly-created icons on the desktop are the onds to use
and NOT the ones in the j64-806 folder.
On Mar 15, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
[Sorry for cross-posting: I originally posted, in 2 separate messages, to
programming forum.]
(1) Once again with this (beta) release, under macOS Sierra (10.12.3) none of the 3 icons
jcon.app
jhs.app
jqt.app
work: double-clicking (even right-clicking) does not open the corresponding
binary for any of them.
The corresponding binaries do work:
bin/jconsole
bin/jhs.command
bin/jqt.command
I did follow the instructions you point to (suitably modified from 805 to 806,
of course).
How to get the icons app icons to work??
(2) However, after I open jqt from the binary bin/jqt.command, although the jqt
window opens, none of the menu items is operable.
Further, if I run instead binary bin/jqt, I get only a console — no jqt window
— with error message shown below:
[me@:~]$ /Applications/j64-806/bin/jqt ; exit;
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform
plugin "cocoa"
in "".
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Abort trap: 6
logout
When following the 805 instructions for 806 instead, I did use “installer 0”, and I do have folder
j64-806/Qt with subfolders Frameworks and plugins, both poppulated.
P.S. avx is working (when starting a binary directly)
On11 Mar 2017 17:44:41 -0500,Eric Iverson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Sat,
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The first 806 beta is available.
806 will be primarily a performance release….
And give big thanks to Henry Rich for this core JE development!
***
Follow web site download links to Installation/Beta. Do appropriate
download from j806/install folder and then follow the Archive install
instructions. These are 805 release instructions, so be careful to use 806
as appropriate.
The install contains a default non-avx JE binary as well as an avx JE
binary. The launch icons will run the non-avx binary. Make sure the install
is stable and when you are ready, switch to the avx binary with the
following steps:
load'~addons/ide/jhs/installer.ijs'
avx'' NB. follow the instructions
If your hardware/OS supports avx, then the next time you start 806 it will
use the avx binary. Verify this by checking 9!:14'' (you will see avx in
the string).
——
Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H)
University of Massachusetts
710 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
——
Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H)
University of Massachusetts
710 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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