Build fails on OS X 10.9

[Ylannl]

I just tried to install LidarViewer on my OS X 10.9 machine using hombrew. This does not work due to compile errors in Vrui (version 2.7-001-1). So I tried the latest source, and that resulted in the same 2 errors:

Comm/SerialPort.cpp:142:15: error: no member named 'pselect' in namespace 'Misc'
        return Misc::pselect(&readFds,0,0,0)>=0&&readFds.isSet(fd);
               ~~~~~~^
Comm/SerialPort.cpp:153:15: error: no member named 'pselect' in namespace 'Misc'
        return Misc::pselect(&readFds,0,0,timeout)>=0&&readFds.isSet(fd);
               ~~~~~~^
2 errors generated.
make: *** [o/g++-3.g0.O3/Comm/SerialPort.o] Error 1

[melanopsis]

Please try the latest the version (3.1) which includes fixes for the compilation issues on OS X. Homebrew formulas have also been updated...

Best

[Ylannl]

Thanks! Compilation issues seem to be fixed. However, when I run make, it terminates with

...
Compiling VRDeviceDaemon/VRDevice.cpp...
Compiling VRDeviceDaemon/VRCalibrator.cpp...
Compiling VRDeviceDaemon/VRDeviceManager.cpp...
Compiling VRDeviceDaemon/VRDeviceServer.cpp...
Compiling VRDeviceDaemon/VRDeviceDaemon.cpp...
mkdir: bin/.: No such file or directory
make: *** [bin/VRDeviceDaemon] Error 1

That is probably a minor issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

[Ylannl]

Doing mkdir bin in the Vrui root directory fixes it. Thanks again, great software!

[melanopsis]

Thank you for reporting back, I will look into the issue you described. In that regard, did you use homebrew or compile the code yourself? (Edit: my bad, you already mentioned that you had run make)

[Ylannl]

I compiled the code myself. Unfortunately, homebrew (I edited the Vrui brew-file to create the bin dir) still fails due to a problem with libtiff:

 $ brew install vrui
==> Cloning https://github.com/KeckCAVES/Vrui.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/vrui--git
==> Checking out revision v3.1-001
==> mkdir bin
==> make INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/vrui/3.1-001-1 DOCINSTALLDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/vrui/3.1-001-1/share/doc/vrui ETCIN
==> make INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/vrui/3.1-001-1 DOCINSTALLDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/vrui/3.1-001-1/share/doc/vrui ETCIN
Error: vrui dependency libtiff was built with the following
C++ standard library: libc++ (from clang)

This is incompatible with the standard library being used
to build vrui: libstdc++ (from clang)

Please reinstall libtiff using a compatible compiler.
hint: Check https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/C++-Standard-Libraries

I have tried to recompile homebrew's libtiff with the --c++11 flag, but that didn't help. As stated I have succeeded to compile Vrui (and also LidarViewer) without homebrew. But, and I can't tell whether this is related to the same issue, the software appears to be less stable, since I am experiencing more crashes than before (OS X 10.8 and Vrui 2.7) while using LidarViewer. For instance: changing the slider of the z-coloring option now always results in a crash. Forget that, I can't reproduce it. There are occasional crashes though:

Cache sizes: 4670 memory nodes, 1170 GPU nodes
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type IO::File::Error: IO::StandardFile: Fatal error 22 while reading from file
Abort trap: 6

But maybe that is a LidarViewer issue and not Vrui specific.

I hope that helps. Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[melanopsis]

Thank you for your input, it's really valuable. For the homebrew libtiff issue, could you please update homebrew first brew update then brew reinstall -v libtiff ?

LidarViewer crashes might be due to a corrupt project file. Does this happen with a particular project or all of them? Could you regenerate/reprocess a problematic project to see if that makes things more stable?

I am trying to get a hold of a Maverick based system (10.8 seems to be fine so far) to check all of these issues (especially the Vrui bin issue). I will let you know...

[Ylannl]

This is the verbose output of reinstalling libtiff: http://pastebin.com/b5ph61Vz

About the LidarViewer Issue: indeed, things are more stable after regenerating the project files. Thanks

[melanopsis]

I can confirm that the build fails on OS X 10.9 (Maverick) due to the inability to create the bin directory under the Vrui root directory. I have already notified the developer of this issue.

Thank you for the libtiff output, it seems that the issue was a homebrew glitch.

I am glad to hear that LidarViewer runs stably now.

Thanks again for all your help.

[melanopsis]

This has been fixed in Vrui-3.1-002.