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I have been asked to build Vis5D+ on our AIX 5.1 system, and I'm not
having any luck with it.  The configure script right away told me I
needed to install Mesa, so I tried to build this with no luck (I need
to write the Mesa email list for info on this).

I found a precompiled Mesa library for AIX 5.1, so I downloaded this
instead. But, the Vis5D README files didn't indicate where the Mesa
libraries needed to reside.  It looks like it's just doing a "-lGLU
..." and hoping that they reside in a standard location, like
/usr/lib. Also, it didn't indicate if you somehow need to work around
the issue of the proper names for the Mesa libraries (-lMesaGL or
-lGL), but I assume it just tries both.

Anyway, I modified the configure script and forced a "-L/.../..." in
front of the Mesa library (-lGL) so it would find it.  It still didn't
get very far.  Here's the pertinent part from the config.log file:

configure:14725: cc -o conftest -O3 -w    conftest.c -L/fs/scd/home1/ncargd/test/local/src/vis5d+-1.3.0-beta/lib -lGL   -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11  -lm  >&5
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_self
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_key_create
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_getspecific
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_setspecific
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.

Lastly, the README files don't indicate if this should all be
happening in 32-bit or 64-bit mode.  I'm doing 32-bit mode right now
(setenv OBJECT_MODE 32) because that's what the precompiled Mesa
libraries were available in.

Has anybody had luck with building Vis5D+ under AIX, and if so, would
they be willing to impart their wisdom on this subject?

Many thanks,

--Mary Haley
  ha...@uc...

Hi,
 
displaying my geological data with vis5d works fine, but sometimes I
have the requirement to display a single point or one or more vectors
(e.g. a drill hole or probe point etc.) in the 3D window. Is there a
chance to do that with vis5d?
 
Thanks,
Christian
 
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Darmstadt University of Technology
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Dr Hibbard,

Hi, I'm Gordon Brooks from the Air Force Weather Agency...you may remember
me from awhile back.

I wonder if you could give me some specifications regarding the workstation
power required to view BIG vis5d files.  Certain ones reach about 2.4
GB...and certainly Sun Ultra 2's can't take them on.  I was hoping you could
give me an idea what would MINIMALLY be required and what would OPTIMALLY be
required.

Thank you very much,

Gordon

Gor...@af...

Hi Gordon,

> I wonder if you could give me some specifications regarding the workstation
> power required to view BIG vis5d files.  Certain ones reach about 2.4
> GB...and certainly Sun Ultra 2's can't take them on.  I was hoping you could
> give me an idea what would MINIMALLY be required and what would OPTIMALLY be
> required.

For optimal performance, you need a machine with 2 or 3 times as much
memory as your file size, plus comensurate processor and graphics
speed. For a 2.4 GB file, this also means a 64-bit architecture and OS.

For minimal performance, you may be able to get away with 1 GB of memory.
However, the standard versions of Vis5D may have trouble with a 2.4 GB
file.

I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience running Vis5D with such
large files. But the NCAR folks on this list do, so hopefully they can
give you some more practical advice. I think they have a special
version of Vis5D for 64-bit architecture and files (i.e., files longer
than 2 GB). I don't know if their big data support is built into the
current Vis5d+, or if you have to obtain it from NCAR. Good luck.

Cheers,
Bill

Hi there,

I would like to set up my linux box to run vis5d (or vis5d+) in stereo
mode. Could any one out there tell me how to configure the X11 display of
my linux box (details are shown below)?

OS: RedHat 8.0
Graphics adaptor: nivdia Quadro4
Monitor: CRT monitor with a pair of 3D shutter glasses connected

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Lam.

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 he...@nu... wrote:

> We have several vis5d files on Sun Solaris and SGI Irix.  We want to
> port these to Linux on Intel.  Will we have to somehow convert the vis5d
> files so that vis5d on Linux/intel can read them?
>
> Will appreciate any info on the subject.

You should be abel to read the files on Linux without any changes.
Make sure to add '-DLITTLE' to CFLAGS in foo_to_v5d.c.m, if you convert
any data to .v5d files on Linux.

Good luck,
Bill

We have several vis5d files on Sun Solaris and SGI Irix.  We want to
port these to Linux on Intel.  Will we have to somehow convert the vis5d
files so that vis5d on Linux/intel can read them?

Will appreciate any info on the subject.

Thanks.

-Choo K.

Hello,

Where can I get PC version Vis5D, which can run in Window9X, or Windows 2000, or WindowXP?

Thanks very much,

han