README Compiling and Installation of picoTK

This file describes the compilation and installation of picoTK. For more detailed introduction and discussion of application issues please refer to the HOWTO file. The HOWTO is available in different formats including PS and DVI from the picoTK homepage: http://picotk.sourceforge.net

The following information is extracted from chapter 4 of the HOWTO. It describes the installation and the configuration of picoTK. It has been tested on a SuSE 7.0 Linux distribution.

1 Requirements

Xlib development support
XServer with 16 or 24 bits color depth.

2 Installation

Unpack the distribution tarball tar xzf picotk-xx.tgz
Make picoTK cd picotk make

Note: picoTK cannot be compiled from a text console, since the fontripper tool requires access to a running X-Server (it internally uses a pixmap, which is not made visible though).

3 Run Demo

From a common directory execute the following. It is important to run these programs from the same directory as they need access to the same shared memory file handle ("fbe_buffer").

   emulators/fbe  &        ; This starts fbe in 1bpp mode (The demo 
                             is compiled for this) and places it in the
                             background
   demo/demo               ; Start demo