On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:44:41 PM UTC-4, Kostas Tavlaridis-Gyparakis wrote: > > Hello, > Just to be sure that I am understanding correctly what your proposal. > You suggest I should: > > 1) Completely uninstall Julia >
> 2) Recompile the source code (i.e. run make) > heh no need for 1,2, the current source tree build should be fine. > 3) Then try using julia from the source code build cxx package > Yea like Isaiah says, originally this built by pointing to the source tree, it's still there. > 4) Then perform the make install and link the version of julia of the > decaxemical folder with my system > And hopefully this will work? > The tricky part. There's a reasonable change it will just work, and likewise there's a good chance it won't and it all revolves around what Cxx expects from Julia and does Julia make install copy whatever that is into the install directory. > I am just asking to be sure before I proceed with any attempt, as the make > command is really time con- > suming, so want first to be sure that I am doing what you are actually > suggesting (: > > On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 6:24:21 PM UTC+2, Jeff Waller wrote: >> >> Yea I think what you're seeing is that Cxx needs to use the source tree >> for example Make.inc only exists in the source tree while embedding >> assumes the installed tree. >> >> How to reconcile this the best way I'm not sure yet. I myself found Cxx >> interesting enough to try, but the build failed a couple of times and I >> haven't had a chance to pick it back up. But here's what I assume >> could be done. >> >> Don't attempt to do them at the same time but first Cxx (using source) >> and then embed second (using install). >> >> Build Cxx following the Cxx instructions. >> >> Then install (this is the tricky part and only something I can guess at >> right now). You might find that a number of things necessary for Cxx >> to function are not installed by default, or it will all go smoothly. I >> think >> though that Cxx is going to need clang in some way and that is definitely >> NOT installed by default. I'm not sure how much Julia must/can provide >> and how much the Cxx package can/must provide. >> >> Then build embed against installed stuff. >> >> Report errors, they may require multiple iterations. >> >
