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Hi, Thanks for your tool, we are using it to run an inventory system with a bluetooth barcode reader and it's working quite well now. However, there were a few things I found while getting it to run:
softwedge.c:138 When $DISPLAY is not defined, the message "softwedge: can't open " is not really helpful. What cannot be opened? (Empty String) How about something like this:
fprintf(stderr, "%s: can't open X11 window [%s]\nIs $DISPLAY defined?\n", "softwedge", XDisplayName(NULL));
Also, I ran into some problems when running it as user in a new environment:
sudo env -i sh -c 'export DISPLAY=":0"; /usr/local/bin/softwedge'
fails with a 'No protocol specified' Error from XOpenDisplay. When running as normal user it works fine. I din't investigate this issue further as it works for me (running it as a normal user is safer anyway).
Last, I couldn't compile it with your makefile, as it couldn't link some X stuff. Instead I used this command:
g++ -Wall -Isw -O2 -Lsw -o softwedge sw/main.c sw/softwedge.c -Isw -lX11 -lXtst
My system: A farly virgin Ubuntu 12.04.1 (Kernel 3.2.0-32-generic, 64bit).
Cheers, iliis
Hi theatrus,
We need to use this in an installation of ours, but are struggling to get it installed, would you be able to assist? error
cc -Wall -Isw -O2 -c sw/softwedge.c -o sw/softwedge.o sw/softwedge.c:24:22: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory #include <X11/Xlib.h>
Tried creating directories but still not working.
Make sure to install the relevant X11 / Xorg development packages for your distribution.
What are you running?
Hi
I am running Ubuntu 14.4 LTS.
I found a self install package on the net for Softwedge. So I am good.
Thanks for the reply. Regards PS. maybe just update the comments with dependencies.
On 12 Mar 2016, at 2:42 AM, Yann Ramin [email protected] wrote:
Make sure to install the relevant X11 / Xorg development packages for your distribution.
What are you running?
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/theatrus/softwedge/issues/1#issuecomment-195617595.
for rpm based rhel clones these packages need to be installed: libX11-devel libXtst-devel
