WEB Compilation and Linking

  WEB Compilation and Linking

This document contains a lot of information on the current Web distribution. Some of it may not be relevant to your situtation.

CONTENTS

• EXECUTABLES
• LINKING
• COMPILING
• LIBRARIES

EXECUTABLES

Web	Irix	processors
web2	5.3	all
web3	6.2	R4***
web4	6.2	R5000,R8000,R10000

(web2 is same as old web5, old web6 moved to rejects)

Linking Web

You should only have to relink the Web software if you are using a pre Irix 5.3 release of the operating system or if you wish to make your own modifications to Web's linking parameters (e.g. changing libraries from dynamic to static). In the documention that follows WEB_DIR refers to the location of Web on your system and a '?' inside a filenames refers to the suffix of one of the specific Web distributions available e.g. 2, 3, 4. The directory: WEB_DIR/src contains makefiles named Makefile? These makefiles can be used to compile the source code, place the object code in an object library, link the object code with SGI object libraries, and create an executable binary file. Use the following commands to save the original Web executable as: web?_orig and to relink WEB on your machine:

cd WEB_DIR/src
mv web? web?_orig
make -f Makefile?


Compiling and Linking Web

If you wish to modify the Web source code or to compile Web with different compilation options (e.g. change optimization levels) you will have to compile the source code on your computer.
Use the following commands to save the original object library under another name and compile and link all of Web:

cd WEB_DIR/src
mv web?.a web?_orig.a
make -f Makefile?


If the make operation fails or the new executable does not run contact us at the address below.

Notes: The archive ar command in the Makefile will use a lot of space in your TMPDIR. If you get a message about no space being left on your device I suggest you redefine TMPDIR to a directory that has space (e.g.):
setenv TMPDIR /usr/tmp

Makefiles

WEB	Irix	processors	make
web2	5.3	all	make 2
web3	6.2	R4***	make 3
web4	6.2	R5000,R8000,R10000	make 4

Summary of Compilation and Linking Flags

-P_SGIOSF	cpp flag used IEEE Format numbers on DEC-UNIX
-DSP_SUNSP	cpp flag used for selective compilation on Sun 4.* Unix
-DSP_UNIX	cpp flag for selective compilation on Unix
-DSP_NT	cpp flag for selective compilation on NT
-O2	optimization level
-mips2	target SGI architecture
-mips3	target SGI architecture
-mips4	target SGI architecture
-32	32 bit code
-n32	64 bit code with 32 bit addresses
-g	for debug use
-woff	ignore enumerated warnings
-DFUNCPROTO	require function prototypes
-fullwarn	list verbose warnings

Auxiliary Libraries

-Xm	motif
-Xt	X Toolkit
-X11	X11
-PW	Window
-M	math

BUGS, SUGGESTIONS

In the event that you have questions about an operation or wish to report bugs please send us complete info on what you are trying to do, including any error messages.

Send such info to:

ArDean Leith
Wadsworth Labs, P.O. Box 509, Albany, New York 12201
phone: 518-486-5604
fax: 518-474-7992
email: spider@wadsworth.org WWW: http://www.wadsworth.org/spider_doc/web/docs/web.html

Source file: compiles.html     Updated: 10 Mar 1998     ArDean Leith