I can't install IRRLICHT!

wuyihao · Post by **wuyihao** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:30 am

I've made the source of it.Then I made install,It said that there's no libirrlicht.so.1.7.0-SVN.I checked at ../lib/linux.I found another file libirrlicht.a

Then I read the MAKEFILE of it.I thought it must stop at this line

$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -dynamiclib -Wl,-install_name,$(SHARED_LIB).$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR) -o $(SHARED_LIB).$(VERSION) $^ $(LDFLAGS)

What's the problem?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:33 am

You should probably tell us, which OS you are using. The problem you mention first is due to the default target for the Makefile being the static library target. This only creates the .a file, which you can link against. Since it is not necessary to provide the static library with your application, it is currently not copied by the install target. The latter needs the 'make sharedlib' to be called instead, creating the .so file.
However, the line you pointed to, is from the OSX targets. These are seldomly used, because for OSX you should use XCode. The XCode project can be found in source/Irrlicht/MacOSX

wuyihao · Post by **wuyihao** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:48 pm

Thank you very much.The OS I'm using is Ubuntu 9.10.
Do you mean I should put Irrlicht's .h and .a files under my projects folder?

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:57 pm

How did you install it? With make, make install? Or make sharedlib, make install?

wuyihao · Post by **wuyihao** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:01 pm

1. make
2. make sharedlib
3. make install

Thank you!

So there's no problem while installing it.
But I still couldn't make the examples under the Code:Blocks IDE.
Should I configure the IDE?

wuyihao · Post by **wuyihao** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:07 pm

Oh,I just succeeded!!

Thank you very much!!