[Xcircuit-dev] Something must be missing

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Philip wrote:

 >> >> I typed "xcircuit" and after a moment a shell opened. The label in
 >> >> the window menu bar is "tkcon 2.3" and in the console it says:
 >> >>
 >> >> error in slave eval:
 >> >> image type "xpm" doesn't exist
 >> >> Main console display active (Tcl8.4.12 / Tk8.4.12)
 >> >> (user) 3 %
 >> >>
 >> >>  - but there is no xcircuit!!
 >> >>
 >> >> Did I miss something? Or skip a step?
 > >
 > > Tim emailed me directly and with his info I got it working. It seem
 > > that there were some xpm calls where it should have been gif.

I should add to this problem arises when you compile the Tcl/Tk version
of XCircuit but the system doesn't have the XPM library.  In response to
Philip's problem, I changed the distribution so that it no longer uses
XPM files and calls, so this should not be a problem in the future
(at least with xcircuit-3.6;  I haven't made any changes to the stable
3.4 version).

						---Tim

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