Piping on 64-bit Cygwin was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] llvm 3.7.1-2

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 15:30:00 GMT 2016


On 22/06/2016 03:32, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
>>> I've reproduced this SaVi-can't-talk-with-Geomview-on-64-bit-cygwin problem on multiple installs
>
>> How, exactly?  Give me the step-by-step.
>
> Step by step instructions to build Geomview and SaVi are on:
> http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-under-Windows/
>
> launch with
> geomview -run ../savi1.4.9/savi
>
>
> build Geomview and SaVi on 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin, and compare. On 32-bit Cygwin, SaVi talks to Geomview, you get a view of the Earth with a ring around it when you launch the two, you can control Geomview with SaVi and its menus as expected. On 64-bit, Geomview launched with SaVi:
>
> geomview -run ../savi1.4.9/savi
>
> gives a blank grey canvas window. Though SaVi may be listed as a module in Geomview's main window, clicking that does nothing. There is no piping communication between the applications. At all.

may be is a piping problem, but there is no evidence; it could be a lot 
of different issues due to 64bit porting.
I will not be surprise if there is wrong assumption on data size.

>
> Geomview is available from http://www.geomview.org/
> SaVi is available from http://savi.sourceforge.net/
>
> regards
>
> Lloyd Wood
> http://savi.sf.net

Regards
Marco





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