[ODE] Building on MacOSX (and now Linux)

[Wesley Smith]

I've had trouble with isnan on OSX before as well (in other
libraries).  It's available on Linux and some other OSes, but the OSX
stdc++ doesn't have it.

wes



On 5/4/06, Ryan Gardner <ryebrye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's pretty darn close to just building and running on OS X out of the box
> from a clean SVN checkout...
>
> With a little bit of tinkering, I got past my above problem... although I
> don't know if it's the best workaround or not. The link error on the ODE
> library was easy to get past. I just navigated to the trunk/ode/src and ran
> make - then copied the gcc build command it was using - pasted it in bbedit
> - changed the gcc to g++ and pasted it back into the terminal... then it
> linked fine with g++ (no undefined symbol error)
>
> The same fix worked for the chaintest1.c file that was giving link errors.
>
> After getting past both of those minor bumps - the next obstacle I encounter
> is in compiling test_basket.cpp:
>
> test_basket.cpp: In function 'void nearCallback(void*, dxGeom*, dxGeom*)':
> test_basket.cpp:86: error: 'isnanf' was not declared in this scope
> test_basket.cpp:87: error: 'isnanf' was not declared in this scope
> test_basket.cpp:88: error: 'isnanf' was not declared in this scope
> test_basket.cpp: In function 'void simLoop(int)':
> test_basket.cpp:179: error: 'isnanf' was not declared in this scope
> test_basket.cpp:183: error: 'isnanf' was not declared in this scope
>
> I think that isnanf is not implemented on PPC processors - but I may be
> wrong.
>
> To avoid the error, I commented out those lines (they were assertions...)
>
> After that - the entire make process would run fine. (Although If I made
> clean and then tried to make - I would have to manually re-link it with g++
> at each of the sticking points, because I didn't edit any of the makefiles)
>
> The tests don't find the DYlibs if the odelib isn't installed...
>
> To get the tests to run correctly - I did 'sudo make install'... After that
> - the tests run and the thing builds correctly.
>
> I'm not playing around with the buggy... Yipee!
>
> Ryan
>
>
> ----------
>
> "You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'."
>
>
>
>
> Homer Simpson
>
> On May 4, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Samuli Riihonen wrote:
>
> Hello...
> One glitch.
> Would you please change ifdef in drawstuff/src/drawstuff.cpp to be:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_APPLE_OPENGL_FRAMEWORK
> #include <OpenGL/gl.h>
> #include <OpenGL/glu.h>
> #else
>
> At the moment it checks against #ifdef MAC_OS_X which is not defined
> (although it was before... probably too little sleep for me).
> Otherwise the addition now compiles and works for me (OS X 10.4.6,
> powerbook G4) with a fresh checkout + autogen.sh + configure + make
>
> - Samuli
>
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