No, it is my fault, when I was unable to download from afterstep.org<http://afterstep.org> earlier I didn’t realize that it was probably my work firewall blocking me. Thus sending me on a wild goose chase with macports and home-brew and github version, which didn’t compile.
But now I’ve tried to follow your advice, and have a new problem. I installed Afterimage from your suggested site, with suggested X lib flags: ./configure --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib make make install No errors. Then re-configured and built petsc: export PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 export PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage ./configure --with-afterimage --download-hdf5 --download-mpich --PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage --PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 make PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage all No errors. Then try to run an example with image output: cd src/dm/examples/tutorials/ make ex5 ./ex5 ./ex5 -draw_save test.png The example generates the error you mentioned, which it didn’t before installing afterimage: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow) Value in failed request: 0x40 Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 14 Browsing through configure.log, it seems that petsc is using the same X11 library. Did I miss something? Thanks! Sean On Dec 2, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:bsm...@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: I am such an idiot. No I did build it from source I forgot the comment in afterimage.py After image is available from http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php # # It is used by the PetscDrawSetSave() routine to save X windows graphics to files # # If installing on an Apple make sure to read the details on PetscDrawSetSave manual # page before installing # from that page I found If X windows generates an error message about X_CreateWindow() failing then Afterimage was installed without X windows. Reinstall Afterimage using the ./configure flags --x-includes=/pathtoXincludes --x-libraries=/pathtoXlibraries For example under Mac OS X Mountain Lion --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib Did you try all this stuff? Barry On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:00 AM, Sean Dettrick <sdettr...@trialphaenergy.com<mailto:sdettr...@trialphaenergy.com>> wrote: Hi Barry, Thanks for the amazingly fast reply. I installed home-brew but then was unable to find afterstep available as a package. The closest thing I could find was asterm (after step terminal emulator. Do you remember if you installed it from a canonical repo? I did find afterstep on github, but had trouble installing it on the mac. Meanwhile, a colleague has given me a python script, so I’ll probably use that instead for now. Thanks again, Sean On Dec 2, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:bsm...@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: Sean, I have never been able to build from that source either. I used homebrew to install it and its worked for several years. I also tried to see if one could pull the image from the X pixel map and it looked like a huge project (the pixmap stuff is not as trivial as one would think it would be) so I gave up on that and started using afterimage (which essentially does all the for you). Barry On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Sean Dettrick <sdettr...@trialphaenergy.com<mailto:sdettr...@trialphaenergy.com>> wrote: Hi, I’d like to have petsc draw output to a pixmap, but have been unable to install afterstep on my Mac. Direct download of the tar files from http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php failed, as did cvs checkout. It seems the target sites may not exist at present. Is there another way to install afterstep? Alternatively, is there a way to manually redirect the X11 output using something like XCreatePixmap? Thanks! Sean Dettrick
