[chuck-users] Compiling chuck on UbuntuStudioGutsy32

[Michael Heuer]

Scott Wheeler <wheeler at kde.org> wrote:

> Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > Compiling a program from source is not that tricky, but compared with
> > synaptic it's "linux admin", I agree. So either one sticks with the
> > software available through synaptic or one learns to compile from source.
> >
> > I simply tried to help you understand, in a more general way, how to
> > compile a piece of software, so that you'll know what to do next time
> > you need to.
> >
>
> Actually this is all getting kind of silly.  The reason that ChucK is
> hard to compile is that unlike almost all other pieces of software on
> Linux, it doesn't use autoconf (or similar) to provide a configure
> script that first checks for dependencies.  I'd be willing to set that
> up for ChucK, but only if I was sure that it'd go into the official
> version.  Otherwise it's not worth wasting the time.
>
> -Scott

Hello Scott,

Would an autoconf-based build solve the problems with 64-bit architectures?

I was able to compile chuck and its dependencies on x86_64 fine but it
has issues with primitives (among other things) at runtime

$ chuck -s type_primitives.ck
0.000000 :(int)
0.000000 :(int)
0.000000 :(int)
0.000000 :(float)
0.000000 :(dur)
0.000000 :(time)
0.000000 :(string)
480000.000000 :(time)
*** glibc detected *** chuck: double free or corruption (!prev):
0x0000000000a02680 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2ab67cf9caad]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x2ab67cf9e796]
chuck[0x40d1dd]
chuck[0x40d289]
chuck[0x410adb]
chuck[0x40dc7c]
chuck[0x40deb2]
chuck[0x40f58b]
chuck[0x455e4e]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2ab67cf4db74]
chuck(__gxx_personality_v0+0x309)[0x407549]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00533000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9212003
  /usr/bin/chuck
00732000-00733000 r--p 00132000 08:03 9212003
  /usr/bin/chuck
00733000-0075a000 rw-p 00133000 08:03 9212003
  /usr/bin/chuck
0075a000-00a19000 rw-p 0075a000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
40000000-40001000 ---p 40000000 00:00 0
40001000-40851000 rw-p 40001000 00:00 0
40851000-40852000 ---p 40851000 00:00 0
40852000-410a2000 rw-p 40852000 00:00 0
2aaaac000000-2aaaac021000 rw-p 2aaaac000000 00:00 0
2aaaac021000-2aaab0000000 ---p 2aaaac021000 00:00 0
2ab67bc52000-2ab67bc6d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9079390
  /lib64/ld-2.6.1.so
2ab67bc6d000-2ab67bc6f000 rw-p 2ab67bc6d000 00:00 0
2ab67be6c000-2ab67be6d000 r--p 0001a000 08:03 9079390
  /lib64/ld-2.6.1.so
2ab67be6d000-2ab67be6e000 rw-p 0001b000 08:03 9079390
  /lib64/ld-2.6.1.so
2ab67be6e000-2ab67bf2c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9373285
  /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
2ab67bf2c000-2ab67c12b000 ---p 000be000 08:03 9373285
  /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
2ab67c12b000-2ab67c12e000 r--p 000bd000 08:03 9373285
  /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
2ab67c12e000-2ab67c133000 rw-p 000c0000 08:03 9373285
  /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
2ab67c133000-2ab67c143000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9389721
  /usr/lib64/libjack.so.0.0.23
2ab67c143000-2ab67c342000 ---p 00010000 08:03 9389721
  /usr/lib64/libjack.so.0.0.23
2ab67c342000-2ab67c343000 r--p 0000f000 08:03 9389721
  /usr/lib64/libjack.so.0.0.23
2ab67c343000-2ab67c345000 rw-p 00010000 08:03 9389721
  /usr/lib64/libjack.so.0.0.23
2ab67c345000-2ab67c34d000 rw-p 2ab67c345000 00:00 0
2ab67c34d000-2ab67c42f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 8931325
  /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
2ab67c42f000-2ab67c62e000 ---p 000e2000 08:03 8931325
  /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
2ab67c62e000-2ab67c635000 r--p 000e1000 08:03 8931325
  /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
2ab67c635000-2ab67c637000 rw-p 000e8000 08:03 8931325
  /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
2ab67c637000-2ab67c64a000 rw-p 2ab67c637000 00:00 0
2ab67c64a000-2ab67c64c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9079396
  /lib64/libdl-2.6.1.so
2ab67c64c000-2ab67c84c000 ---p 00002000 08:03 9079396
  /lib64/libdl-2.6.1.so
2ab67c84c000-2ab67c84d000 r--p 00002000 08:03 9079396
  /lib64/libdl-2.6.1.so
2ab67c84d000-2ab67c84e000 rw-p 00003000 08:03 9079396
  /lib64/libdl-2.6.1.so
2ab67c84e000-2ab67c89a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9290567
  /usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1.0.17
2ab67c89a000-2ab67ca9a000 ---p 0004c000 08:03 9290567
  /usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1.0.17
2ab67ca9a000-2ab67ca9c000 r--p 0004c000 08:03 9290567
  /usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1.0.17
2ab67ca9c000-2ab67ca9d000 rw-p 0004e000 08:03 9290567
  /usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1.0.17
2ab67ca9d000-2ab67caa1000 rw-p 2ab67ca9d000 00:00 0
2ab67caa1000-2ab67cb21000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9077432
  /lib64/libm-2.6.1.so
2ab67cb21000-2ab67cd20000 ---p 00080000 08:03 9077432
  /lib64/libm-2.6.1.so
2ab67cd20000-2ab67cd21000 r--p 0007f000 08:03 9077432
  /lib64/libm-2.6.1.so
2ab67cd21000-2ab67cd22000 rw-p 00080000 08:03 9077432
  /lib64/libm-2.6.1.so
2ab67cd22000-2ab67cd23000 rw-p 2ab
Aborted

I haven't written C since college, but still might be able to help.

   michael