Building on Linux?

[FenwayFrank]

Hi --
I'm running mprime on a Linux system. I'm thinking about writing a Gnome and/or KDE taskbar widget to show the progress of the computations, much in the way that the Prime95 icon is kept on the taskbar of Windows systems (but keep in mind that "planning" and "doing" are often two different things..)

Two questions come up. The first is simple: where's the current source? The code available at ftp://mersenne.org/gimps is the 22.7 version, not 22.10. The changes, I'm sure, are minor -- otherwise we'd be talking about 23.0 -- but I'd still rather start from the "right" version.

The second is 'how do I go about building this'? I went to the linux subdirectory and added a VPATH directive to the makefile to get it to work in that directory but don't know how I'd go about doing a "full build". Is there an assumption about environment variables, command line arguments or ordering between the directories that I should know about?

TIA. -- Frank

[Xyzzy]

Something like this?

http://www.cryptofreak.org/projects/gkrellmgimps/

[Deamiter]

on the page you linked to, could it be "sprime2210.tgz"? It looks to me like that's the source for mprime, and "source" is the source for p95.

[Prime95]

Originally Posted by FenwayFrank

The second is 'how do I go about building this'?

I build it using Redhat 7.2. I unzip everything, go to the Linux directory, and type "make mprime".

If that doesn't work and you have suggestions for improving the makefile so that it works on different distros, please let me know. Also, I can upload 22.10 source. I'd like to do that after you've upgraded the makefile.

[FenwayFrank]

Xyxxy points the noobie to gkrelimgimps: something very similar, but to be pulled into the task bar itself. Thanks for the pointer; I can probably stea^H^H^H^Hborrow some of the same mechanisms as a starting point. Actually, I like that a lot -- I may keep it running anyway.

Deamiter suggested:

on the page you linked to, could it be "sprime2210.tgz"? It looks to me like that's the source for mprime, and "source" is the source for p95.

I had the same thought but found that it's the 22.10 version of the executable along with the five .txt files.

Finally, Prime95 says

I unzip everything, go to the Linux directory, and type "make mprime".

I just tried that with the original makefile but it didn't work until I added 'VPATH=../prime95' near the top. You may also want to add "-I.." to the alternate setting of CFLAGS, remove "-m486" and use that as the default setting instead: 486s are probably in the minority by now.