<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No, it is my fault, when I was unable to download from <a href="http://afterstep.org" class="">afterstep.org</a> earlier I didn’t realize that it was probably my work firewall blocking me. Thus sending me on a wild goose chase with macports and home-brew and github version, which didn’t compile.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But now I’ve tried to follow your advice, and have a new problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I installed Afterimage from your suggested site, with suggested X lib flags:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> ./configure --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> make</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> make install</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No errors. Then re-configured and built petsc:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> export PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> export PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> ./configure --with-afterimage --download-hdf5 --download-mpich --PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage --PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> make PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage all</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">No errors. Then try to run an example with image output:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> cd src/dm/examples/tutorials/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> make ex5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> ./ex5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> ./ex5 -draw_save test.png</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">The example generates the error you mentioned, which it didn’t before installing afterimage:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> Value in failed request: 0x40</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> Serial number of failed request: 7</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> Current serial number in output stream: 14</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Browsing through configure.log, it seems that petsc is using the same X11 library.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Did I miss something?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">Sean</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" class="">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""> I am such an idiot. No I did build it from source I forgot the comment in afterimage.py <br class=""><br class=""> After image is available from <a href="http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php" class="">http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php</a><br class="">#<br class=""># It is used by the PetscDrawSetSave() routine to save X windows graphics to files<br class="">#<br class=""># If installing on an Apple make sure to read the details on PetscDrawSetSave manual<br class=""># page before installing<br class="">#<br class=""><br class="">from that page I found<br class=""><br class=""> If X windows generates an error message about X_CreateWindow() failing then Afterimage was installed without X windows. Reinstall Afterimage using the<br class=""> ./configure flags --x-includes=/pathtoXincludes --x-libraries=/pathtoXlibraries For example under Mac OS X Mountain Lion --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib<br class=""><br class="">Did you try all this stuff?<br class=""><br class=""> Barry<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:00 AM, Sean Dettrick <<a href="mailto:sdettrick@trialphaenergy.com" class="">sdettrick@trialphaenergy.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Barry,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for the amazingly fast reply. I installed home-brew but then was unable to find afterstep available as a package. The closest thing I could find was asterm (after step terminal emulator. Do you remember if you installed it from a canonical repo? <br class=""><br class="">I did find afterstep on github, but had trouble installing it on the mac.<br class=""><br class="">Meanwhile, a colleague has given me a python script, so I’ll probably use that instead for now. <br class=""><br class="">Thanks again,<br class="">Sean<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 2, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" class="">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> Sean,<br class=""><br class=""> I have never been able to build from that source either. <br class=""><br class=""> I used homebrew to install it and its worked for several years.<br class=""><br class=""> I also tried to see if one could pull the image from the X pixel map and it looked like a huge project (the pixmap stuff is not as trivial as one would think it would be) so I gave up on that and started using afterimage (which essentially does all the for you).<br class=""><br class=""> Barry<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Sean Dettrick <<a href="mailto:sdettrick@trialphaenergy.com" class="">sdettrick@trialphaenergy.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I’d like to have petsc draw output to a pixmap, but have been unable to install afterstep on my Mac. Direct download of the tar files from <a href="http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php" class="">http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php</a> failed, as did cvs checkout. It seems the target sites may not exist at present.<br class=""><br class="">Is there another way to install afterstep?<br class=""><br class="">Alternatively, is there a way to manually redirect the X11 output using something like XCreatePixmap?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class="">Sean Dettrick<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>