TiLP

[opensourceguy]

I have a TI-89 Graphing Calculator, and I would like to get TiLP working to transfer files. I tried using it in windows, but it has library errors, and if I try to compile it in linux, I get this error:

checking for ticables >= 3.8.0... Package ticables was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ticables.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'ticables' found

configure: error: Library requirements (ticables >= 3.8.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

I have all the dependancies required [even the dependancies for the dependancies], and it just won't compile. What's up with this?


-justin

[lakerdonald]

well i am assuming that you did install ticables (if not you can obtain it from
http://www.ticalc.org). since you DID install ticables (and even if you didn't you have just gotten it from ticalc.org!), try to find where you installed it to:

su -
whereis ticables

if that comes up with nothing, then:

find / -iname ticables -xdev 2>/dev/null

and that should find it.
then, as the user you are running ./configure as:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/path/to/ticables
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

then try configure again (with the same user you just set PKG_CONFIG_PATH with)
-lakerdonald

[opensourceguy]

I got TICables Library working just fine. Along with all the other Libraries I needed. However, I can't finish the 'make install.' I get this error:

Installing Gnome VFS MIME magic patterns...
0       string          **TI                                    application/x-tilp
Installing application registry in Gnome...
Installing file and icons handling in Gnome...
Installing TiLP menu entry in Gnome...
Done.
---
Installing KMimeMagic local data...
grep: /usr/share/mimelnk/magic: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/share/mimelnk/magic: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/tlip/tilp-6.76/desktop'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

.

When I do a '-i' command, and then run tilp, it comes up with this error:

(tilp:21048): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Error opening directory '/usr/lib/tilp': No such file or directory

** ERROR **: tilp_plugins_scan: opendir error

aborting...
tilp    : scanning plug-ins... Aborted

I think the two are related.. what do you guys think?


-justin

[lakerdonald]

the error message tells you the problem:
it can't find /usr/lib/tilp.
this tells me that you haven't installed some necessary library correctly...
try:

mkdir /usr/lib/tilp

and then try again. this will probably bring about more errors, but you never know...
-lakerdonald