Compiling tightvnc1.2.7 as non root on Solaris 8.0

[Shing-Fat Fred Ma]

Hi, Brigitte,

After reading your link about *.so files,
I recompiled TightVNC 1.2.7 and it worked.
The only difference this time was that I didn't
try to install my own libz stuff.  We have some
libz.so files in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so I
have no idea why I tried to install my own
last time.  For some reason, I thought it was
necessary.  Maybe at the time,  didn't know
to check my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Thanks for your helpful response.  This new
TightVNC seems to get around a potentially
catastrophic problem with the old one, that
is an 8-bit desktop crashes if I connect to
it from a 24-bit desktop.  That's one way
to inadvertently terminate a simulation that
has been running for weeks.

Thank you again.

Fred

-- 
Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6



Bonert Brigitte wrote:

>Hi,
>I have done this but not for Solaris8.0 but for Dec Alpha Unix and I suspect
>
>you have the some of the same problems I encountered. 
>I described them:
>http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2656964
>but did not get an answer.
>It allowed me however to get a working version of Xvnc which is what 
>I needed most.
>I found an answer since via changing the file:
>../vnc_unixsrc1.2.7/Xvnc/config/cf/vnclibs.def 
>I attach my changed file since you do not have 
>OSF1 (I do) you will change the #else part.
>My change assumes that the jpeg and zlib reside
>in 
>../vnc_unixsrc1.2.7/lib
>(just like tightvnc1.2.2 which libraries)
>
>If you do not have jpeg and zlib anymore you will to have
>to download them
>http://www.ijg.org/files/
>http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
>
>For building the vncviewer I just had to change its Imakefile
>in the same way.
>
>++++
>I just read your other email and it seems to me you have a
>problem running Xvnc. It does not find the shared library for jpeg
>(a shared library is something like a dll in Windows but better
>in IMHO. Their names start with lib and end with .so)  These libraries
>must be available at runtime and on the box you are running your Xvnc ..
>If these libraries are not in standard locations you must 
>define the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH that they can be found
>during execution.
>for example for Korn shell
>mydirectory <directory in which the .so file resides>
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=mydirectory
>do 
>echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
>first that you do wreck existing definitions .. if there is
>something just add the additional item by 
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=mydirectory:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
>Static libraries names start with lib end with .a and are built into
>the executable. It makes the result executables bigger but
>independent of installed libraries on any system you copy
>them to.
>Xvnc by default is build with almost all static libraries
>by default.
>
>(I recommend this ..)
>find something about shared libraries and static libraries for example at:
>http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/en/c-tips/unix/
>or at many other places.
>
>Hope this helps 
>
>Brigitte
>
>
>/*
> * vnclibs.def - tells Xvnc where to pick up VNC libraries (i.e. libvncauth)
> *
> * Don't forget you need to remake the Makefiles in programs/Xserver
> * and programs/Xserver/hw/vnc whenever you change this file.
> */
>
>VNCLIBS = $(TOP)/../libvncauth/libvncauth.a
>
>#ifdef OSF1Architecture
>/* Avoid linking with different libjpeg in /usr/shlib under Tru64. */
>/* Changes for jpeg and zlib include and lib not in /use/local */
>VNCSYSLIBS = $(TOP)/../lib/jpeg/libjpeg.a $(TOP)/../lib/zlib/libz.a
>/* VNCSYSLIBS = /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/local/lib/libz.a */
>#else
>VNCSYSLIBS = -L/usr/local/lib -ljpeg -lz
>#endif
>VNCCPPFLAGS = -I$(TOP)/../include -I$(TOP)/../lib/jpeg -I$(TOP)/../lib/zlib
>/* VNCCPPFLAGS = -I$(TOP)/../include -I/usr/local/include */
>
>
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