IRC log for #brlcad on 20100720

00:36.43 starseeker brlcad: I guess you can take another wack at breaking red - I'm not convinced I've used the regex library in the "ideal" way for the task, but it seeme to make a fair bit of sense
00:50.04 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r39850 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/red.c: Allow newlines in between floats - a natural editing possibility in red tmp files is to break up a matrix into 4-columns
01:06.06 ``Erik he'll be back *shrug*
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03:45.39 ``Erik hrm, I don't see it on my shelf :/ starseeker, remind me to look for my TOC book at work tomorrie
03:47.57 ``Erik http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=theory+of+computation&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hl=en&cid=1442957637363865374&ei=RRxFTJT7FaLgwwXgkZDbDA&sa=title&ved=0CBkQ8wIwATgA#p
03:48.41 ``Erik it lays out the grammar levels and goes into the fundamentals that seperate regex and lex/yacc
03:49.27 ``Erik (and is the book that had me choose bf for that task)
03:50.48 ``Erik (also the book mostly responsible for taking my 330 starting class down to 17 graduating)
03:51.39 ``Erik still regret the one day of lecture for that class I missed... O.o it was intense :D
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09:36.31 Alexandrus moin();
11:00.39 brlcad moin
11:01.19 brlcad Alexandrus: there's also a 'coil' tool now to help automake pipe creation
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13:39.48 starseeker LOL - apple made the macpaint source code available to the computer museum, and apparently stipulated only non-commercial use
13:39.52 starseeker wow
13:40.05 starseeker tries to imagine a commercial use for that code today...
14:07.59 brlcad heh
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14:42.09 Alexandrus @brlcad: thanks
14:42.22 Alexandrus where do i find information about this?
14:47.03 Alexandrus there is some claim in "coil.xml"
14:47.10 Alexandrus but can't find the tool nor the command yet
15:18.15 Alexandrus ->help automake gives "No help found for automake"
15:51.42 brlcad Alexandrus: brlman coil
15:52.03 brlcad MANPATH=/usr/brlcad/man:$MANPATH man coil
15:52.09 brlcad or that
15:52.54 brlcad automake is used by the build system, has little to do with the coil tool
17:25.38 Alexandrus ok, i try to figure that out
17:25.45 Alexandrus have to say, its not a unix here...
17:26.31 Alexandrus so /usr/brlcad/man does not actually exist
17:26.41 Alexandrus i greeped the whole folder for "coil"
17:27.35 brlcad Alexandrus: which platform?
17:27.45 Alexandrus windows vista
17:27.47 brlcad ah
17:27.56 Alexandrus no brlman found
17:27.56 ``Erik coil is a reasonably recent addition, it's probably not in the windows binary package and may not even be in the msvc build stuff yet :/
17:27.57 brlcad coil isn't in the Windows binary distribution yet
17:28.26 Alexandrus so i have to work through the source first...
17:29.13 Alexandrus whats keeping it from the msvc build?
17:29.37 ``Erik lack of someone willing to log into a windows machine? :)
17:30.28 ``Erik ooh, I bet the new libpng is gonna break the msvc build, too
17:30.40 brlcad Alexandrus: most of the devs don't use windows on a regular basis, so it gets attention at "unpredictable" levels of activity, sometimes high but often lagging
17:30.44 Alexandrus the usual portablity issues:)
17:30.55 brlcad the code itself is portable
17:31.08 Alexandrus i open a mac...
17:31.12 brlcad it's maintaining the actual minor build issues, maintaining the build files, etc
17:31.36 brlcad moreover, our source releases tend to stay FAR ahead of our binary releases
17:31.40 brlcad and coil is pretty new
17:32.00 Alexandrus hmm
17:32.19 Alexandrus now, i opened a mac..
17:32.26 Alexandrus checking mged version..
17:32.53 brlcad added in 7.14.4
17:32.54 Alexandrus even worse..
17:33.16 brlcad building on the Mac is usually really simple
17:33.17 Alexandrus so...i am going to install msvc..
17:33.22 brlcad ~cadsvn
17:33.23 ibot To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad
17:33.45 brlcad cd brlcad && sh autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-all && make -j8 && make install
17:34.24 ``Erik hm, coil exists in shapes/, but I see no correlary in the msvc8 project files O.o
17:37.33 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39851 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/coil/: copy tire project as template for coil
17:38.30 Alexandrus ok, which vs c++ do you use for compilation?
17:38.47 brlcad vc8
17:38.51 Alexandrus ok
17:39.03 Alexandrus => visual c++ 2008
17:39.04 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39852 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/ (Makefile.am coil/coil.vcproj coil/tire.vcproj): rename tire.vcproj to coil.vcproj and add it to the dist
17:40.23 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39853 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/coil/coil.vcproj: update from tire to coil source file and product exe.
17:41.38 brlcad Alexandrus: actually I believe vc8 is Visual C++ 2005
17:41.45 Alexandrus oh...
17:41.53 Alexandrus not sure where to find this old thing
17:41.56 brlcad they don't have anything to do with the year
17:42.04 brlcad 2008 should work
17:42.07 Alexandrus i try
17:42.12 brlcad but you'll have an easier time on the mac
17:42.28 Alexandrus would like to get it running on the big screen
17:42.33 Alexandrus so, i wish to try:)
17:42.36 brlcad we're in the middle of preparing a release now, and haven't gotten to verifying the windows build just yet
17:42.48 brlcad though it should be finished today or tomorrow
17:42.52 Alexandrus i am not expecting miracles
17:42.59 Alexandrus i just give feedback as much as possible
17:43.06 brlcad quite appreciated
17:43.19 brlcad saw the forums postings, will reply later
17:43.35 Alexandrus forum?
17:43.40 Alexandrus i missed this one
17:43.53 brlcad I suspect the .mgedrc issue is that windows is treating it as a hidden file due to its name
17:44.42 Alexandrus unlikely
17:44.56 Alexandrus (to what i know about windows)
17:44.59 brlcad if I had a windows box up, I could probably point you right to the file
17:45.12 Alexandrus ok, i am trying to get all stuff running
17:45.59 brlcad if you hit the menu to create a .mgedrc, and it didn't pop up an error dialog, then it created the file *somewhere* .. just a matter of where
17:46.13 Alexandrus ->dir/s ...
17:46.40 brlcad should be in top root dir, or dir with mged.exe, or my doc's dir, or some other similar working dir .. but just don't know without having access to windows handy
17:47.41 brlcad the name does pose a problem because windows has to treat the file as a special "extended" file with a long extension
17:48.11 brlcad since fat32 files only have three characters in their extension portion of filenames
17:48.36 Alexandrus thats a ageold dos thing...
17:48.46 brlcad so it has to mangle the name as an extended file
17:49.09 brlcad sure, they work around it .. with extensions, but under the hood the age old issue is still there, and some tools aren't happy
17:49.27 brlcad point only being: I don't trust the autoamtic search
17:49.33 Alexandrus i think on ntfs this is completly ignored
17:50.09 Alexandrus i have extensions with more than 3 chars here all the time
17:51.03 Alexandrus but lets see...
17:51.07 Alexandrus still installing/downloading
17:55.15 Alexandrus restart...
18:02.18 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39854 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/brlcad/brlcad.sln: add coil to the solution
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18:04.44 Alexandrus re:)
18:04.57 Alexandrus i am searching the project file now:)
18:09.58 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39855 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/ (bolt/ gastank/ handle/ human/ window/ window_frame/ wire/): use the tire project as a template, create stubs for bolt, gastank, handle, human, window, window_frame, and wire.
18:11.11 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39856 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/ (12 files in 6 dirs): use the tire project as a template, create stubs for bolt, gastank, handle, human, window, window_frame, and wire.
18:12.21 Alexandrus can't find it..must be blind
18:16.44 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39857 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/ (13 files in 7 dirs): rename tire stubs for bolt, gastank, handle, human, window, window_frame, and wire.
18:16.47 brlcad Alexandrus: misc/win32-msvc8/brlcad/brlcad.sln is the main solution file
18:16.57 Alexandrus ok:)
18:20.54 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39858 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/README.Windows: update the docs to reflect new dir names and outdated info about the display manager.
18:26.22 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39859 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc8/ (9 files in 9 dirs): update the tire templates to compile the correct new source files, enable the new tools (bold, fence, gastank, handle, human, window, window_frame, and wire) for compilation.
18:27.30 brlcad (and coil)
18:27.35 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39860 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: added all of the remaining shape tools to the windows build: bolt, fence, gastank, handle, human, window, window_frame, and wire
19:05.01 Alexandrus errors...more errors...even more errors
19:05.11 Alexandrus vc c++ 2008 tries to import
19:05.16 Alexandrus but can't read some properties...
19:06.36 Alexandrus compiling...
19:19.06 Alexandrus missing asc2g.exe...
19:19.21 Alexandrus 8 successfull, 54 failed
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19:32.24 Alexandrus moin
19:36.47 Alexandrus he stops in coil.c 106 "missing ; before type"
19:37.05 Alexandrus and he isn't convinced by an extra ";" there
19:37.58 ``Erik heh, c99-ism crept in
19:38.13 Alexandrus ok, i admit not to understand this
19:38.25 ``Erik moving that line to the beginning of the function might fix it
19:39.17 Alexandrus its getting worse...
19:39.24 Alexandrus "unreferenced local variable"
19:39.32 Alexandrus and there is a rather long list following
19:39.49 Alexandrus he doesn't like the wp64 switch, if this tells you something?
19:43.03 Alexandrus C2275 "invalid use of a type as expression"
19:48.13 CIA-93 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r39861 10/brlcad/trunk/src/shapes/coil.c: various fixes for c89 and windows.
19:48.23 ``Erik try that
19:48.36 Alexandrus i do
19:58.19 Alexandrus fatal error: inputfile "libbu.lib" can't be opened
19:58.36 Alexandrus i try to solve this myself this time
20:01.43 Alexandrus libbu->libpng : C1083: "Cannot open file ..\..\..\src\other\pngvcrd.c"
20:01.52 Alexandrus libbu->libpng : C1083: "Cannot open file ..\..\..\src\other\pnggccrd.c"
20:02.16 starseeker Alexandrus: we updated libpng recently, so the Windows build may be out of sync
20:02.34 Alexandrus i just updated everything from svn
20:02.53 Alexandrus still out of sync?
20:04.59 starseeker probably...
20:05.12 starseeker unless I missed an update (possible)
20:05.30 Alexandrus i just don't know
20:05.33 Alexandrus first time i look in the source
20:06.49 Alexandrus i heard something about libpng a few hours before..
20:06.53 Alexandrus so, you might be right
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20:55.23 Alexandrus its 22:55 here, time to leave
20:55.27 Alexandrus thanks for all help:)
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21:27.14 brlcad hehe, http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
22:28.42 ``Erik bleh, iphone patch
22:33.44 ``Erik that missy thing reminds me of http://www.shipmentoffail.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/9479.jpg
22:36.55 ``Erik isn't dave thorne the one who did the 7 legged spider?
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22:38.28 ``Erik yeahhhh, I've read this guys stuff before, good stuff :)
22:38.51 ``Erik http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html is what got me to his page originally
22:45.15 yukonbob ^-- /me likes missing cat one...
22:45.40 yukonbob http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
22:46.01 yukonbob feh
22:46.05 yukonbob reads more history
22:46.10 yukonbob :)
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23:50.56 ``Erik ok, apple is starting to piss me off... microsoftian convolution going on
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