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Getting started issues with Linux Mint 64bit

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 12:07 pm
by phraxos
INTRO: Hi, I cant wait to get started with CFA but am having trouble with the basics. I am 3rd year Comp. Sci. student so am shocked I am having issues and yet no one else seems to have had these issues in the forums. Me not smart as I thought. Anyways...Hopefully someone can help me with a response that will assist any future noobiles.

SUMMARY OF EFFORTS SO FAR: I downloaded ContextFree 3.0.7 compressed zip file (v23) (10.3MB) and extracted it. Tried compiling it (on seperate attempts) with "make" and "make clean" and "make install". Then per the Readme while in the top level of the CF3 directory I ran "./cfdg -s 500 input/mtree.cfdg mtree.png". This results in error "bash: ./cfdg: No such file or directory".

QUESTIONS:
1. So where is this cfdg file? I could not find it anywhere in the file tree (except the source files in src-common).

2. Are earlier versions such as 2.2.2 still available?

3. What am I obviously not grasping about this whole thing or what document have I obviously not read or comprehended?

Thank you for your time.
I promise to make the donation if I get this working!

Re: Getting started issues with Linux Mint 64bit

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 10:50 pm
by MtnViewJohn
I just created a Linux Mint 16 VM and compiled Context Free. I had to install the g++, bison, flex, and libpng12-dev packages. There is no 'make install' target, I should fix that. The Makefile just creates cfdg at the top of the source tree.

Re: Getting started issues with Linux Mint 64bit

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 10:43 pm
by nik282000
Reviving a dead thread but I just wanted to mention that I got the latest version 3.1(v31) to compile under Debian 9 (Stretch) with relatively few issues.

Like John said above, I had to install the following packages, g++, bison and flex. libpng12-dev is not available under stretch but libpng-dev seems to cover the requirement, I also had to install libicu-dev because I was getting "unicode/ucnv.h: No such file or directory" from src-unix/posixSystem.cpp.

After that I ran make and then ran the test script and it all seemed to work.

Thanks, John!

Re: Getting started issues with Linux Mint 64bit

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:31 am
by MtnViewJohn
I'm curious why you were looking for libpng12-dev. I thought the dependencies list had libpng-dev (which is currently libpng 1.6.x).

-- john

Re: Getting started issues with Linux Mint 64bit

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:29 pm
by nik282000
In your previous post you had mentioned libpng-12 but (now) I also see that it was a couple years ago. My mistake.