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FreeSpacenav / spnavcfg

Spacenav interactive configuration GUI
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Installer as make return error on files #36

Closed docop closed 1 year ago

docop commented 1 year ago

Hi I did try to install but fail at some level, like with libspnav, returning an error about a x11.h -no such file ... And the gui spnavcfg too. Is there any plan to have the release made in a .deb ? Like it can be only 1 file to install all or 1 .deb to install the whole driver and another for the gui cfg.
Look a nice project, but doing a make and fight with version, update and so on..

Thanks in advances

jtsiomb commented 1 year ago

No, I'm not interested in distributing pre-compiled binaries. All releases will be source-code only.

If you don't have X11/Xlib.h you just need to install the Xlib headers before building spnavcfg.

I'm closing this issue, but feel free to post followup questions if you need further help.

jtsiomb commented 1 year ago

Having said that, all parts of the spacenav project are set up to automatically build for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS X, on every commit, for testing. After every build, the results are automatically packaged up in a zip archive and are made available for download. So, if you're desparate for a pre-compiled binary, just go to the "Actions" tab at the top of the github page, pick the latest auto-build for your platform, and grab the archive from the bottom of the page, under the "artifacts" header.

docop commented 1 year ago

Oh wow ! this is very nice and quite a find, i haven't seen this function usage. So based on action build, that could lead to a just a : dpkg -i spnavcfg ? thanks, appreciated

jtsiomb commented 1 year ago

No. It doesn't package it up for debian. It just contains the same directory structure that would be produced by running "make install" after building the source. It will have a usr/local/bin directory, which contains the spnavcfg executable (plus some other stuff under usr/local/share, like icons and so on which are not necessary). Just take the executable, and throw it into your /usr/local/bin, making sure you set the execute bit which is not preserved in zip files, and run it.