$ idl -IDL_QUIET 1

svn co http://svn.idldev.com/ridl/trunk

14 Responses to “rIDL development”

1. Erin Sheldon says:
   January 13th, 2010 at 6:43 am

   This rIDL looks very nice. I’ve been using rlwrap for a while to get a better command line experience. It is a great program, but does not work seamlessly with IDL. I would love to beta test your rIDL wrapper!

   Erin

2. Michael Galloy says:
   January 13th, 2010 at 3:47 pm

   Give it a try and let me know how it works!

3. Erin Sheldon says:
   January 13th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

   The first major snag on linux is the dependency of openmotif. Most of the computers where I run IDL I am not the administrator, and getting these libraries installed is not generally possible.

   Is there a way to compile without motif? Does basic plotting require motif, or just the widgets?

   Erin

4. Michael Galloy says:
   January 13th, 2010 at 9:23 pm

   Yes, I tried to build this on Linux today and ran into this problem. I’m not sure what is required to do simple plotting.

5. Michael Galloy says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

   Here is an updated Makefile that I have used for 64-bit Linux systems. You will have to change the Readline location to point at your own build of it.

6. Gianguido says:
   March 27th, 2010 at 6:33 pm

   Hey,

   having trouble compiling rIDL on Mac OS X. Checked out revision 143. When I run ‘make’ I get:

   cd src; make
   echo "#define RIDL_VERSION \"0.1\"" > ridl_version.h
   echo "#define RIDL_REVISION \"svnversion\"" >> ridl_version.h
   echo "#define RIDL_BUILD_DATE \"date \"+%b %d %Y\"\"" >> ridl_version.h
   cc -arch x86_64 -I/Applications/itt/idl/external/include -I/usr/local/include \
                 -c ridl.c -o ridl.o 
   ridl.c: In function 'main':
   ridl.c:632: error: 'rl_event_hook' undeclared (first use in this function)
   ridl.c:632: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
   ridl.c:632: error: for each function it appears in.)
   make[1]: *** [ridl.o] Error 1
   make: *** [all] Error 2

   Any ideas what’s going on? is it a problem on my end? Like a dependency? I’m looking forward to trying rIDL!!!

   Thanks.

   G

7. Gianguido says:
   March 27th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

   Dang! Sorry for the poorly formatted message!

8. Michael Galloy says:
   March 27th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

   It can’t find rl_event_hook, which is in Readline. Make sure the READLINE_LIB variable in src/Makefile is pointing at the lib directory of your Readline build. I currently build it on Mac OS X and 64-bit Linux.

9. Adam Ginsburg says:
   March 29th, 2010 at 8:42 am

   Hey, I’m running into dyld issues:

   
   eta ~/repos/ridl$ ./ridl 
   dyld: Library not loaded: libXm.3.0.2.dylib
     Referenced from: /Users/adam/repos/ridl/src/bin.darwin.x86_64/ridl
     Reason: image not found
   ./ridl: line 17: 23718 Trace/BPT trap          $RIDL_DIR/src/bin.$OS.x86_64/ridl $@
   eta ~/repos/ridl$ echo $RIDL_DIR
   /Users/adam/repos/ridl
   eta ~/repos/ridl$ echo $IDL_PATH
   /Users/adam/.idl/smart:/Users/adam/.idl/IRS_Calibration:/Applications/itt/idl706/lib/:/App
   lications/itt/idl706/lib/astron/::/Users/adam/observations/triplespec/Spextool2/pro/::/Use
   rs/adam/repos/ridl/src
   eta ~/repos/ridl$ echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
   
   eta ~/repos/ridl$ 

   Any ideas?

10. Robin Wilson says:
    December 18th, 2010 at 7:01 am

    Hi Michael,

    rIDL looks great, particularly the notebooking feature. I’m trying to install in Mac OS X and get the following error when I run make:

    echo "#define RIDL_VERSION \"0.1\"" > ridl_version.h
    echo "#define RIDL_REVISION \"svnversion\"" >> ridl_version.h
    echo "#define RIDL_BUILD_DATE \"date \"+%b %d %Y\"\"" >> ridl_version.h
    /usr/bin/gcc -arch x86_64 -I/Applications/itt/idl/idl/external/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.1/include \
              -c ridl.c -o ridl.o 
    ridl.c:7:25: error: idl_export.h: No such file or directory
    ridl.c:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘attribute’ before ‘user_info’
    ridl.c:24: error: ‘IDL_INIT_CLARGS’ undeclared here (not in a function)
    ridl.c:40: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘attribute’ before ‘msg_arr’
    ridl.c:44: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘attribute’ before ‘msg_block’
    ridl.c:102: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_changewdir’:
    ridl.c:114: error: ‘user_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:114: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
    ridl.c:114: error: for each function it appears in.)
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_exit’:
    ridl.c:237: error: ‘IDL_FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_executeline’:
    ridl.c:408: error: ‘IDL_FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_welcome’:
    ridl.c:611: error: ‘IDL_INIT_QUIET’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_printversion’:
    ridl.c:623: error: ‘IDL_SysvVersion’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:628: warning: format ‘%s’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 2 has type ‘int’
    ridl.c:628: warning: format ‘%s’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 3 has type ‘int’
    ridl.c:628: warning: format ‘%s’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 4 has type ‘int’
    ridl.c:628: warning: format ‘%s’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 5 has type ‘int’
    ridl.c:628: warning: format ‘%s’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 7 has type ‘int’
    ridl.c: In function ‘ridl_handleswitches’:
    ridl.c:694: error: ‘IDL_INIT_DEMO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:701: error: ‘IDL_INIT_EMBEDDED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:708: error: ‘IDL_INIT_NOVM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:713: error: ‘IDL_INIT_QUIET’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:715: error: ‘IDL_INIT_LMQUEUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:717: error: ‘IDL_INIT_RUNTIME’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:721: error: ‘IDL_INIT_STUDENT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:723: error: ‘IDL_INIT_NOLICALIAS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:728: error: ‘IDL_INIT_VM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c: In function ‘main’:
    ridl.c:755: error: ‘IDL_INIT_DATA’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:755: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘init_data’
    ridl.c:756: error: ‘init_data’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:772: error: ‘ridl_changeprompt’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:785: error: ‘msg_block’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:786: error: ‘msg_arr’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:789: error: ‘user_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    ridl.c:814: error: ‘IDL_FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    make: *** [ridl.o] Error 1

    It looks like it can’t find a number of constants in the ridl.c file. Any ideas?

    Robin

11. Michael Galloy says:
    December 18th, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    It can’t find the IDL API header file:

    ridl.c:7:25: error: idl_export.h: No such file or directory

    By default is looks in /Applications/itt/idl/idl/external/include. You will have to change this if your IDL is not in this location.

12. Robin Wilson says:
    December 23rd, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    Brilliant! Changing that makes it compile and then I can run it fine.

    One slight problem though: when using the notebooking functionality, the :save_graphic command gives the error below:

    IDL> :save_graphic

        g.save, filename, width=dims[0], height=dims[1]
               ^
    

    % Syntax error.
    At: /usr/local/ridl/ridl_savegraphic.pro, Line 29
    % Compiled module: RIDL_SAVEGRAPHIC.
    % Attempt to call undefined procedure/function: ‘RIDL_SAVEGRAPHIC’.
    % Execution halted at: $MAIN$

    (again, apologies if the comment system makes this come out looking horrible)

    I’ve checked that the ridl_savegraphic.pro is in my IDL_PATH, and it is. However, it doesn’t seem to be able to compile it.

    Any ideas? Just a thought – does rIDL require IDL 8.0?

    Robin

13. Michael Galloy says:
    December 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    Ah, it seems to be requiring it. I will change the syntax so that it will compile in all versions of IDL (but, of course, the “new graphics” part will only work in IDL 8.0+).

14. IDL User says:
    August 26th, 2011 at 4:49 am

    Very excited to try and use rIDL but i’m having difficulty compiling.
    I’m on Linux (32 bit), using gcc for my c compiler.
    I first built the newest versions of cmake and readline.
    Then I did the cmake step in the ridl directory setting paths to readline, IDL and where I want to install to.

    On the make step everything compiles but the link step fails with:

    Linking C executable ridl
    /usr/bin/ld: ridl: hidden symbol `__fixunsdfdi’ in /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/libgcc.a(_fixunsdfdi.o) is referenced by DSO
    /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make[3]: *** [src/ridl] Error 1
    make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/ridl.dir/all] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/ridl.dir/rule] Error 2
    make: *** [src/CMakeFiles/ridl.dir/rule] Error 2

    Any idea what might be going on here? Unfortunately I’m new to cmake so having some difficulty in working out exactly what is happening and how to play around with the commands/flags being used.

    The only points i’ve found from google so far are that the error may be to do with static vs shared libs or missing flags to ld (and using ld directly rather than via gcc).

    Thanks!