Re: troubles compiling.

[whitty reeve <whitty reeve com>]

Okay one, I may have been a little.. short. However, to put it simply, i 
figured out i needed libart after i sent off my initial email. Second, the 
part about libpng, if you had picked up where i had failed you would have 
noticed that, no, the dia FAQ states that you need libart to use export png 
functions, Duh, why don't i tell him? Ahh, but you did not, you pinned it as 
pure newbie acts. how ever, thank you Andrew i have what i need, and i'm 
going to be trying it out after i finish my dinner. 

>> " For the benefit of those readers who, like myself, noticed that there is
>> no mentioned of libart in his error message:

>> http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html#Compiling";

Are you able to see the connection between "png export support" and the file 
that contains the errors "export_png.c"?
>> "First, though I should write the word Distribution, I didn't because I 
>> wonder if Whitty is a newbie and doesn't know the word."
I'm sure you can imagine the implications of this word, need i say more?

I am sorry, I was wrong, i should have done a bit more research before i sent 
off my email. Thank you

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On Sunday 29 August 2004 17:53, hma syd odn ne jp wrote:
> > From: Andrew Ross <aross westnet com au>
> > Date: 2004/08/30 09:32:27 GMT+09:00
> > To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: troubles compiling.
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 06:46, whitty reeve wrote:
> > > Simple logic could have figured out all your questions.
> >
> > I wonder if I'm the only one who thought this email to be quite rude.
>
> Thanks Andrew,
> I think so, and I believe there are someone else care about that.
> But let's go back to the problem as you did.
>
> There were two wrong point in my mail where Whitty and Andrew
> noticed.
> First, though I should write the word Distribution, I didn't because I
> wonder if Whitty is a newbie and doesn't know the word.
>
> > >  OS: obvious, by the
> > > fact that i'm compiling it, it would be a *nix, now, that we have
> > > singled it down to a bsd (save darwin and a few others {i believe it's
> > > safe to say that i don't use them}) or linux. Does that matter? I doubt
> > > it.
> >
> > You might be using Cygwin, for some strange reason. Instead of OS, he
> > probably should have said "distribution" (see below).
> >
> > >  Second: Compiler:
> > > again, my error message i don't think spawns from a compiler error
> > > rather than a missing library.
> >
> > I concur.
>
> Second, this is my mistake. If he haven't correctry installed -dev package,
> some error precede, like "'png.h' wasn't found" or something.
>
> > >  but if you had looked
> > > at the error message i think you would have made the connection between
> > > libart and my error.
>
> Whitty,
> If you knew that, you should add them to your E-mail.
> It is the fastest way to find the solution.
>
> Now I know you are not a newbie, I think the fastest way
> for you is to answer Andrew's question below.
>
> > What distribution are you using, and is there a good reason for not
> > using the distribution-provided packages?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Cheers,
>
> Takeshi Hamasaki
>
>
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