Ubuntu 8.04 and GTK Maxgui

I have the 1.28 standard IDE, compiled with gtk instead of fltk.

Here is what I get from terminal:

$ ./maxide
./maxide: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ubuntu 8.04 put firefox 3.0 beta 5 on it by default, so it is probably relocation issues.

My ld.so.conf file:

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
/usr/lib/firefox/

Just looked in '/usr/lib/firefox' and there are no files there, just two folders, components and extensions.
I looked in both folders and found no libgtkembedmoz.so.

I'm just booting into my freshly upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 and am aware that Firefox 3 is being used. But I think Firefox 2 is still in the repository isn't it?

from this http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=74181

try this

sudo ldconfig /usr/lib/firefox

1) 'sudo ldconfig /usr/lib/firefox' ditto.

2) Ditto there as well, it was already uncommented.

If you look at my ldconfig file (first post, thats /etc/ld.so.conf) you will see that '/usr/lib/firefox' is already in there.

EDIT: FF3 has some issues, I think ill just go back to FF2 for now.

EDIT2: There seems to be major problems (ie nothing works) in gtkhtml, Brucey? When opening maxide, and when going to module documentation nothing shows up in the help tab.

Yes, I believe there is a bug or conflict of some kind between GTKmaxgui and pub.freeprocess, as posted a month ago here:

http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=76522

Does the test code that I posted also hang on 8.04?

Import bah.gtkmaxgui
Import bah.gtkwebgtkhtml
Import bah.gtkwebmozilla
win=CreateWindow("Test",1,1,100,100)
process:TProcess = CreateProcess("/home/mark/BlitzMax/bin/bcc",HIDECONSOLE)

And yes, my guess was that it's the tickless kernel that was introduced in 7.10 that caused the problem, as the same official IDE code used to work in 7.04 & GTK.

That code just runs and exits with no messages/errors (as assumed, did I miss something?)

What exactly does 'tickless' mean?

I'm no linux expert, but I *think* it means that previous kernels generated a regular "tick" event, that processes received and could then use to process "things".

A tickless kernel doesn't generate these tick events (I think on the basis that it is more efficient processor-wise not to). Therefore any apps dependent on these ticks will hang: if the expected tick doesn't arrive, it will do nothing!

As for no error for you with the above code, well, bugger. I thought I was onto something 'cos that definitely hangs for me on 7.10...maybe *that* problem is okay on 8.04, and there's another issue hidden somewhere that's causing your problem...

It still has the hang on apps when I run stuff (and have to close them using system manager - or whatever its called), but I can deal with that. No docs is a problem though.

Correct me if wrong, but my understanding is that Firefox 3's renderer has been split into a seperate package called xulrunner. As a result, something using the renderer no longer depends on Firefox; we now have a nice, clean way to access it.

Could use some updating ;)

When firefox3 is out of beta and in widespread use, that might make sense...but not before.

Have found a "kind of" fix for the hang with freeprocess & gtk on my linux box in thread below. Doesn't 100% fix my issue with gtk (CE IDE still hangs, but gets marginally further...)

http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=76522