Hello, If you wish to use gmsh with its graphical interface, you need to install the toolkit it relies on, fltk. You can either find it there http://www.fltk.org/, or, probably, in your distribution's packages repositories (note : you need both the "normal" package and the "dev" one providing the header files).
If you only need to run gmsh in commandline mode, you can use ./configure --disable-gui to configure it without installing fltk. (A little) More info here : http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/FAQ.txt Note that you may wish to use a precompiled version. Hope that helps ! -Bastien Gorissen [email protected] wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to use Gmsh for my research project but have problems > with its installation on my Linux machine. > > I unzipped the downloaded file and followed instructions in README but > got error message as shown below: > > ./configure > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking for g++... g++ > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes > checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for ranlib... ranlib > checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar > checking for fltk-config... no > configure: error: Could not find fltk-config. Try --with-fltk-prefix? > > Could anyone please guide me how to go through this? > > Many thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > > _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
