Can anyone help me compile GridFlow? I've got Ruby installed but when I do #./configure, I get:

/usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory

This must have something to do with the path to my ruby libs?? I am very eager to get cracking on gridflow, so any help at all would be appreciated.

maybe try changing the first line of ./configure from

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

to

#!/usr/bin/env ruby18

or

#!/usr/bin/env ruby1.8

or whatever your distro calls the ruby interpreter?

@ClaudiusMaximus said:

or whatever your distro calls the ruby interpreter?

Will that info be available in the usr/bin/env file?

I had luck with changing 'ruby' to 'ruby1.9'

I've installed all the libs (-dev versions too...) Here is the output of ./configure:

This is the GridFlow 0.9.0 configurator within Ruby version 1.9.0-2006-06-08
[gcc3] GNU C++ Compiler 3 (or 4): --------------------------------------------> found
[stl] C++ Standard Template Library: -----------------------------------------> found
[gcc64] GNU C++ in 64-bit mode: ----------------------------------------------> missing (runtime error)
[libruby] Ruby as a dynamic library: -----------------------------------------> missing (gcc: error: ‘rb_rescue’ was not declared in this scope)
[librubystatic] Ruby as a static library: ------------------------------------> missing (gcc: error: ‘rb_rescue’ was not declared in this scope)
[pentium] Pentium-compatible CPU: --------------------------------------------> found
[mmx] MMX-compatible CPU (using NASM): ---------------------------------------> missing (return false)
[x11] X11 Display Protocol: --------------------------------------------------> found
[x11_shm] X11 acceleration by shared memory (XSHM plugin): -------------------> found
[sdl] Simple Directmedia Layer (experimental support): -----------------------> found
[objcpp] GNU/Apple ObjectiveC++ Compiler: ------------------------------------> missing (where is objc/Object.h ?)
[quartz] Apple Quartz/Cocoa Display: -----------------------------------------> disabled (would need objcpp)
[aalib] Ascii Art Library: ---------------------------------------------------> found
[netpbm] NetPBM 10 Library: --------------------------------------------------> missing (where is pam.h ?)
[jpeg] JPEG Library: ---------------------------------------------------------> found
[png] PNG Library <libpng12/png.h>: ------------------------------------------> found
[videodev] Video4linux Digitizer Driver Interface: ---------------------------> found
[mpeg3] HeroineWarrior LibMPEG3 <libmpeg3/libmpeg3.h>: -----------------------> missing (where is libmpeg3/libmpeg3.h ?)
[mpeg3] HeroineWarrior LibMPEG3 <libmpeg3.h>: --------------------------------> found
[quicktimeapple] Apple's QuickTime: ------------------------------------------> missing (gcc compilation error)
[quicktimehw] Plaum's LibQuickTime (try #1) <lqt/quicktime.h>: ---------------> found
[puredata] PureData (or DesireData): -----------------------------------------> disabled (would need libruby or librubystatic)
[desiredata] DesireData: -----------------------------------------------------> missing (gcc: error: ‘gobj_subscribe’ was not declared in this scope)
[gem09] PureData GEM (source code) with m_holdname: --------------------------> disabled (would need puredata)
[gem08] PureData GEM (source code) without m_holdname: -----------------------> disabled (would need puredata)
[opencv] Intel OpenCV: -------------------------------------------------------> missing (gcc compilation error)
[fftw] FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West): -------------------------> found

PureData support is required (since GridFlow 0.9.0)
generating ./config.make
generating config.h
See ./config.log if you want the details of the configuration tests.
If you are satisfied with that configuration, you may go on,
and do "make". "make install" is not needed anymore,
just move your gridflow directory to "lib/pd/extra".
If you get stuck, you could contact the author about it,
but first make sure you read "doc/install.html".

I understand that I may need to update the CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH or LIBRARY_PATH, but I amo not sure how to do this inclusively, for all this various libraries. Is it done in the .bashrc file? I'm going to go ahead and 'make' and see what happens.

Blaargh... Just as I suspected, there was a bunch of errors with finding ruby headers and the like; even after changing the makefile to read

RUBY = ruby1.9

Have you installed libruby1.9-devel or so?

Okay, I've compiled. Yay.

So, I end up woth the binary gridflow.pd_linux, which I threw in /usr/local/lib/pd/extra. I also added it to my library list, but PD couldn't load it.

read the gridflow installation instructions - there is no real install method, but:

ln -s /path/to/gridflow /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/gridflow

Yeah, I actually got it loaded just putting the binary in that location. I also had to put the externals folder in /extra and add it to my path. It seems that everything is working now, I can create all the objects at least. However, I still haven't gotten the examples to work. They all manage to bring up a window, but no graphics yet.

Okay, I am going down this road again. Now that gridflow is included in extended, I thought I'd give it a shot. GF load correctly, and most objects seem to show up. Problem is, several objects, seemingly important ones, are broken. Just inside the first tutorial example I am missing [send39], [args *] and [route2]. This happens both with the binary included in pd-extended and with my homemade one. Anybody got any tips on doing this right, I'm sure there's plenty of people around who could benifit from some gridflowin'.