Hi Dave K.,
re 1) My recollection is 4.0.9 Makefiles build the required libraries
incorrectly (since fixed). Can you really not get to
cvs?
re 2) see if you can sidestep pcreateve by having dx ask you to start the
outboard manually:
dx -outboarddebug -mdf hello_outboard.mdf
this isn't a solution it is just a suggestion that might help scope the problem.
are you using -n32?
Regards,
Pete
Dave Kerlick 425-865-5051 wrote:
> Hello David and group:
>
> We are working on SGI Irix 6.5.3 on an Onyx 2 IR. We have put our
> distribution 4.0.9 (last ftp version, can't get cvs through
> Boeing firewall) at /usr/freeware/dx and dxsamples is at /proj/dxsamples
>
> I am still trying to figure out how far people have gotten in compiling
> their own DX modules. We have gotten the DX executable to work OK with the
> default set of modules. Our build has javaDX turned on, and seems to compile
> OK. (We have not gotten the startserver script to work yet, so can't really
> test that yet.
>
> There are three methods in the Programmer's Guide
>
> (1) Compiled into dxexec. hello.mdf
> This is where we're having the problems compiling,
> and the loader ld32 doesn't seem to see the libraries like libDX and sometimes
> OpenGL. For example:
>
> ld32: ERROR 33: Unresolved text symbol "glClipPlane" -- 1st referenced by
> /usr/freeware/dx/lib_sgi/libDX.a (oghwportogl.o)
>
> This is even though the call to lgl is obviously in the load statement after
> the
> call to libDX.a
>
> We're stopped dead in the water here, but I wonder if others have
> succeeded.
>
> (2) Outboard Module. In this case, using Makefile_outboard_sgi and
> hello_outboard.mdf, we get a successful compile
>
> cc -O -Dsgi -I. -I/usr/freeware/dx/include -DUSERMODULE=m_Hello -c
> /usr/freeware/dx/lib/outboard.c
> cc outboard.o hello.o -L/usr/freeware/dx/lib_sgi -lDXlite -lm -o
> hello_outboard
>
> and can invoke
>
> dx -edit -mdf hello_outboard.mdf
>
> We get the Visual Editor with Hello in the Tools menu, and can instantiate it.
> dx -edit -mdf hello_outboard.mdf We can instantiate the module in the
> Visual Program editor. Then we load /program_guide/hello.net
>
> However, when we Execute Once, we get an error
>
> pcreateve: Operation not permitted
> 1: Starting hello_outboard on localhostl will wair for up to 60 second for
> connections.
> 0: Error reading from request queue pipe: 0 8
> -1: cleaning up and exiting
>
> We also get the error "Connection to server has been broken"
>
> If we reconnect to the server, the same thing happens again on execution.
>
> (3) runtime_loadable hello_loadable
> Compile OK.
>
> dx -edit -mdf ./hello_loadable.mdf
>
> Load hello.net as before
>
> Executes correctly.
>
>
> Has anybody gotten further with methods (1) and (2)?
>
> David Kerlick, Ph.D.
> The Boeing Company
> MAthematics and Computing Technology
