I am attempting to install the boinc server on Ubuntu8.04. The autosetup an configure --disable-client steps work fine but during the make stage I get the following error:

Making all in samples/example_app
make[2]: Entering directory `/server_stable/samples/example_app'
g++ -g -DAPP_GRAPHICS -I../.. -I../../lib -I../../api -L../../api -L../../lib -L /usr/X11R6/lib -L. -c -o uc2_graphics.o uc2_graphics.cpp
In file included from uc2_graphics.cpp:39:
../../api/txf_util.h:35: error: ‘GLfloat’ has not been declared
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void init_lights()’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:62: error: ‘GLfloat’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:62: error: expected `;' before ‘ambient’
uc2_graphics.cpp:63: error: expected `;' before ‘position’
uc2_graphics.cpp:64: error: expected `;' before ‘dir’
uc2_graphics.cpp:65: error: ‘GL_LIGHT0’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:65: error: ‘GL_AMBIENT’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:65: error: ‘ambient’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:65: error: ‘glLightfv’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:66: error: ‘GL_POSITION’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:66: error: ‘position’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:67: error: ‘GL_SPOT_DIRECTION’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:67: error: ‘dir’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void draw_text()’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:92: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:94: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:96: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:98: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:104: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:106: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp:109: error: cannot convert ‘float*’ to ‘int*’ for argument ‘6’ to ‘void txf_render_string(float, double, double, double, float, int*, int, char*)’
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void set_viewpoint(double)’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:135: error: ‘GL_MODELVIEW’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:135: error: ‘glMatrixMode’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:136: error: ‘glLoadIdentity’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:141: error: ‘gluLookAt’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:142: error: ‘glRotated’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void init_camera(double)’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:147: error: ‘GL_PROJECTION’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:147: error: ‘glMatrixMode’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:148: error: ‘glLoadIdentity’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:154: error: ‘gluPerspective’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void app_graphics_render(int, int, double)’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:165: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
uc2_graphics.cpp:171: error: ‘GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:171: error: ‘GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:171: error: ‘glClear’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void app_graphics_resize(int, int)’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:198: error: ‘glViewport’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp: In function ‘void app_graphics_init()’:
uc2_graphics.cpp:237: error: ‘glClearColor’ was not declared in this scope
uc2_graphics.cpp:239: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
make[2]: *** [uc2_graphics.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/server_stable/samples/example_app'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/server_stable'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Any thoughts to get past this error?

Currently the only way is editing the samples/example_app/Makefile.am to remove "uc2_graphics", or editing the root makefile so that the example_app isn't built at all.

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Removing example_app from Makefile.am seems to have worked. Many thanks.

It seems that the example app also relies on having the graphics libraries under /usr/local/lib rather than allowing the use of system versions of those libraries. That seems to be a bit of an overconstraint.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Added the graphics libraries to /usr/lib
but still no luck with the example_app. Just out of curiosity, why would you say that currently the only way is to remove it from the makefile? Is there a known bug?

Added the graphics libraries to /usr/lib
but still no luck with the example_app. Just out of curiosity, why would you say that currently the only way is to remove it from the makefile? Is there a known bug?

See [trac]ticket:771[/trac]. It's fixed in the last revision.

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