On 6 August 2012 09:40, Johannes Radinger <johannesradin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> it is my first time that I try to compile Octave (v 3.6.2) from source on
> Ubuntu 12.04. I want to build it with native graphics from the
> GraphicsMagick++ libraries. Thus I downloaded and compiled (with simple
> standard ./configure) GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 (most recent) successfully. But
> when I try to configure Octave it states:
>
> configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ library fails tests.  The imread
> function for reading image files will not be fully functional.
> configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of
> functionality of some geometry functions.
> configure: WARNING: FLTK config script not found.  Native graphics will be
> disabled.
> configure: WARNING:
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
> configure: WARNING: graphics.  It isn't necessary to have native graphics,
> configure: WARNING: but you will need to have gnuplot installed or you won't
> configure: WARNING: be able to use any of Octave's plotting commands
> configure: WARNING:
> configure:
> configure: NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
> configure: NOTE: if the library on your system is missing required features.
>
> Do I need to configure and build GraphicsMagick in a special way
> (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/INSTALL-unix.html#build-configuration)?

Yes. You need to enable shared. Try running configure with
--enable-shared and --disable-static

> I need to modify my procedure of building Octave? Any suggestions?

I have done this not long time ago but only had time to write down the
part about building Octave. See http://wiki.octave.org/Debian
Installing the rest of the packages should solve your problem.

Carnë

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