projectm questions

[Chris Whitehouse]

Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Sorry for the long post, this is my first try at installing from source 
> and I'm not sure how much info I need to give. I'm trying to get 
> projectm (http://projectm.sourceforge.net/) working on FreeBSD. First 
> step is install libprojectm. The INSTALL file said install glew, ftgl 
> and cmake so I did them from ports. I then ran cmake which ran with no 
> errors so I ran make. I got:
> 
> In file included from /home/chrisw/Desktop/libprojectM-1.01/MoodBar.cpp:22:
> /usr/include/malloc.h:3:2: error: #error "<malloc.h> has been replaced 
> by <stdlib.h>"
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I replaced #include <malloc.h> with #include <stdlib.h> in MoodBar.cpp 
> and that allowed make to continue.
> 
> Question 1: did I break things?
> 
> Next I got
> Linking CXX shared library libprojectM.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLEW
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/chrisw/Desktop/libprojectM-1.01.
> 
> After a bit of poking around I found
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/libGLEW.a /usr/lib/libGLEW.a
> fixed it. I also had to do
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftgl.a /usr/lib/libftgl.a
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.a /usr/lib/libfreetype.a
> 
> Well that's alright for a fix but
> Question 2: what do I have to do to get that to work automatically?
> 
> So the above fixes got libprojectm installed. Next job is install 
> projectm itself. README says read INSTALL. INSTALL says
> Install libprojectM 1.0 and XMMS, then:
> 
> cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
> make
> make install
> 
> You may need to type ccmake . and change the PREFIX if your system 
> prefers /usr instead of /usr/local.
> 
> But there is also a file called README~. This has extensive instructions 
> which boil down to
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> Question 3: Which instructions do I use?
> 
> However README~ also says I need to firstly install SDL-1.3.0 or later.
> Question 4: How do I install this in such a way that it doesn't 
> interfere with the installed sdl-1.2 but can be found by projectm in 
> /usr/local?
> 
> Chris
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Got replies to Q2, thanks guys, any chance of pointers particularly on 
Q4 but also for reassurance on Q1?

Thanks

Chris