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Celestia 1.2.5 is finally done. The official announcement on the site will come once the low res package is done. But here

Here are the links to download it from SourceForge:

Win32 binary package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-win32-1.2.5.exe
Source package (for Linux users, or anyone else who wants to compile Celestia themself):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.2.5.tar.gz

If SourceForge is being flaky for some reason, you can get Celestia 1.2.5 directly from shatters.net:
Win32 binary:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/celestia-win32-1.2.5.exe
Source package:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/celestia-1.2.5.tar.gz

Do try and use the SourceForge link if possible. Here's the complete list of changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5:



Many thanks to Christophe and Fridger for all their work on this release. And thanks to all the people here on the forum for finding and reporting bugs in prereleases.

--Chris

I remember you mentioned new script files for nebulas and galaxies....Was this possible for this release?

Wow thanks to all

Rassilon wrote:I remember you mentioned new script files for nebulas and galaxies....Was this possible for this release?

No, but it's first on my list of new things for 1.2.6. Also, 1.2.6 will have a lot less new stuff than 1.2.5, so you won't have to wait half a year for it

--Chris

Well its not been that bad considering you did release the pre betas of 1.2.5...Take your time really...Ive been so busy lately Ive not worked on anything since NGC 1999 but I will try to come up with something this month...I hope...

Thanks for all your hard work chris...Wonderful job as usual

Thanx to you Chris !
I try this new version tonight !

Any chance of cleaning up the directory structure for better support for different universe in the next release or is that being pushed back?

Cool!!! Thanks for KDE GUI support!!!!

but ...



let's see:



The first time i compiled it, it did not complain about celestialbrowserbase.uic.h missing, and returned this:

Thilo wrote:Cool!!! Thanks for KDE GUI support!!!!

but ...

Whenever reporting a bug or compile problem please provide details of your distrib/video card... That makes it easier for us to solve your problem.

The tarball Chris published yesterday had indeed a small bug which causes the celestialbrowserbase.uic.h file to be removed during the make stage which breaks the 'make install'. This has already been fixed and a new tarball will be published soon.

RPMs for Mandrake 9.0 and Suse will be available soon too.

--
Christophe

Whenever reporting a bug or compile problem please provide details of your distrib/video card... That makes it easier for us to solve your problem.


I am reporting the problem with my videocard if I think it is appropriate .. in thise case it was not because I doubt the libGL is responsible for any problems with KDE.
However, my distribution is gentoo based, pretty actual with emerge rsync and update done only yesterday.

Yet, I got another thing for you to chew on :-)
This problem exists on the gentoo gtk 2.0.9 and gtkglarea 1.2.3-r1 libraries, i have edited the configure script to make make use the flags -g3 -ggdb3

*update*

i actualized gtkglarea to 1.99.0

this time celestia hangs with the VERY informative gdb output of



I'm updating to gtk+2.2 and newer glib .... if this does not work I'm going to recompile without debugging symbols, for this may be the cause of it ..

would you like me to try it with Electric Fence memory debugger in that case? ;)

The new source distribution with the missing file celestialbrowserbase.uic.h is now up on shatters.net:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/celestia-1.2.5.tar.gz

I'll upload it to SourceForge later . . .

--Chris

Thilo wrote:Whenever reporting a bug or compile problem please provide details of your distrib/video card... That makes it easier for us to solve your problem.


I am reporting the problem with my videocard if I think it is appropriate .. in thise case it was not because I doubt the libGL is responsible for any problems with KDE.
However, my distribution is gentoo based, pretty actual with emerge rsync and update done only yesterday.

Yet, I got another thing for you to chew on :-)
This problem exists on the gentoo gtk 2.0.9 and gtkglarea 1.2.3-r1 libraries, i have edited the configure script to make make use the flags -g3 -ggdb3

Thilo:

please refrain from upgrading to the very latest system components, since in most cases the KDE interface is not really well tested for these. Christophe and I compile the sources without the slightest problems, despite significantly different Linux distributions.

I use gtk+ 1.2.x and have no idea whether things will work with gtk 2.x. What gcc do you use? My distribution is essentially a modernized SuSE 7.3, while Christophe is using Mandrake.

I use KDE 3.05a while Christophe uses 3.1 which during the development phase also showed incompatibilities that we have hopefully eliminated during our extensive joint debugging efforts;-)...

Bye Fridger

Bye Fridger

I am using gcc 3.2 - but that should not be anymore a problem. compiling without gui does the trick. I'm rather trying to help to give you clues about incompatibilities with newer versions .. i know, linux can be a pain in the butt with these things ;)

By the way, the gtk as well as gtkglarea was not the newest in place but rather old versions, i right now installed gtk 2.2 and gtkglarea 1.9.99 ... now configure does not properly detect the gtkglarea library.



I know you're probably not going to look after it for a while, if you want info still tell me what i can get you of that info.

another suggestion is you having the --with-debug option in configure properly set the compilation flag vars with -g3 and remove -O2 to enable at least debugging for curious souls like me ;)

and finally, to chris: thank you, I'm going to sink my teeth into the new tarball :-)

Chris: the file is there now, but I still receive the compilation error. I am using KDE 3.05a as well and get this error:

Hi Chris,

All functionalities I have tested in (XP SP1) works fine.

Very great Job !!!

Congratulations to you, and the team

Thilo wrote:Chris: the file is there now, but I still receive the compilation error. I am using KDE 3.05a as well and get this error:

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g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../.. -I.. -I/usr/qt/3/include -I/usr/kde/3/include  -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTRANT  -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -g3 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new  -O2 -Wall -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer    -c -o celestialbrowserbase.uic.o `test -f 'celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp' || echo './'`celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp
celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp: In constructor
   `CelestialBrowserBase::CelestialBrowserBase(QWidget*, const char*, bool,
   unsigned int)':
celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp:46: invalid use of undefined type `struct
   KListView'


I've seen that problem before, but I don't remember how I fixed it.
Can you post here the lines where celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp is generated, it looks something like this:



--
Christophe

Borg Collective doesn't say this very often but...

Thanks Chris!

A new Celestia release is really what we needed!
BTW, can you modify Celestia to include Background support? You know, insted of that "old, plain, black..."?
Yes, we know, the Universe (and Space) is AS-IS but still it will enable us to experiment a little bit...

Check our Homeworld threads in general discussion...

Thanks!

as you wish.

I've never used Gentoo but I find a bit strange that you have first:

make[5]: Entering directory `/installation/celestia-1.2.5/src/celestia/kde'
/usr/qt/3/bin/uic -L /usr/local/lib/kde3/plugins/designer -nounload celestialbrowserbase.ui -o celestialbrowserbase.uic.h
/usr/qt/3/bin/uic -L /usr/local/lib/kde3/plugins/designer -nounload -impl celestialbrowserbase.uic.h celestialbrowserbase.ui -o celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp

And then:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../.. -I.. -I/usr/qt/3/include -I/usr/kde/3/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -O2 -Wall -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o celestialbrowserbase.uic.o `test -f 'celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp' || echo './'`celestialbrowserbase.uic.cpp

What is your $KDEDIR, /usr/kde/3/ or /usr/local/?
Do you get that error during 'make' or during 'make install'?

--
Christophe