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Hi all,
I've got a new machine fairly recently and I've downloaded the SVN version of Celestia for both Windows 7 and Fedora 17.

I believe I've downloaded the required packages to build Celestia in the KDE4 Desktop of Fedora 17,but I'm getting a compile problem.
I've tried to compile with options of qt,kde and gtk,but to all no avail.

Here are the configure options I currently run after I run "autorenconf -iv" first:



And here is the error message I am getting:



I hope somebody can help me.
Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000

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Hi there John,
I know Fedora 17 is in Beta,but it is not far from release (Fedora 18 is a lot more Rawhide in my opinion).

I've looked at the rest of your reply,and I'll see if I can download a lower version of libpng,and gcc-4.6.

Regards,
NIGHCAST2000

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You may be interested in the Celestia developers' mailing list. Archives are available here and the page to subscribe is here.

We do have a discussion about libpng15 and also another about various gcc-related fixes ongoing at the moment. Please could you test these?

Related threads:
[PATCH] Missing libpng15 include
PATCH - valgrind errors, out-of-source build, gcc warnings

Would be useful to get some feedback on this!

Hi John and Ajtribick,
I've subscribed to the mailing list,and have posted a messege about the patches. I might download and install a earlier version of gcc, but I'll wait on that one as I know it will take sometime to configure and install that. A previous version of libpng should be very easy to configure and install.

Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000

Please let me know if the latest SVN commit has fixed the libpng issue for you.

Hi there Ajtribick,
The good news is your openpng15 commit does fix the build.
The bad news is I can only compile SVN Celestia with the GTK interface. The only interfaces that I haven't tried are Gnome and building Celestia with Visual Studio 2010.
I did raise this in a reply to one of the devs in the Celestia Mailing list.
The glut error is here:

The KDE error is here:


And the QT error is here:


Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000

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Hi there John,
I'm not using the Nvidia proprietary driver. I am building Celestia pointing to the packaged Fedora Mesa. I do also have all the git versions of DRM,Mesa, the Nouveau kernel and the git version of the Nouveau driver. I build them quite regular when there are significant commits. I could build Celestia against the git version of Mesa,but I wasn't quite sure on how to build the Glew libraries.

My Graphics Card is a:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:1201] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83b5]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at fe000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Here is the output of glxinfo:

It works fine on other games and apps and I get an impressive 1030 fps on glxgears

Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000

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John,

not sure what to make of your bug report. Which branch? Trunk? Here Makefile.am is not needed to build celestia (Qt). Just a valid Qt installation and celestia.pro. The Makefile is generated via the familiar qmake call. In celestia.Sci I have even deleted all auto-tools...

In openSuSE 12.1 and 32bit I never encountered your problem. I seem to remember that with pre-fabricated NVIDIA drivers, a crucial libGL link has been missing occasionally. Doesn't occur or is repaired if one builds the NVIDIA drivers oneself during installation(which is close to trivial).

Fridger

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John,

you don't need qtcreator to build trunk/celestia or (celestia.Sci) without autotools.
As pioneered by me in DEV, celestia.pro now also includes a make install target and deals with distro-dependent name ambiguities via pkgconfig!

F.

PS:
Let me know if you don't manage to figure it out.

PPS:
qtconfig represents of course an "overkill" for mere compiling e.g. of celestia. But it is extemely useful for actual Qt development work. There are so many handy features, like switching between headers and sources, finding the definitions of classes or methods with a click, intelligent completions, bracket testing, notably the Qt widget designer GUI, built-in debugger and profiler tools, flipping compilers, ...