[esp-r] Re: ESP-r installation on 64bit Linux machine

[Francesco Frontini]

Dear Axel, dear all,
sorry for the short explanation.
I paste here the e-mail I sent to Jon yesterday and his answers.


We (at ISE) tried several configurations.

Actually we installed the ESP-r version 11.8 on a Debian machine with
64bits.
We compile it both with the suggested library gcc4.1.2 and the gcc4.3. In
both cases we have problems.

The problems are:

1) When I go into "composition", "construction materials", and I click on
one surface composition (for example "external wall") I can not see in the
graphical interface the description of the different layer that compose the
construction I selected (I have a line of several squares). But I have to
say that in the ".con" file I have the correct values for thickness,
conductivity, density ecc.. The problem seem to be in the graphical
interface.

"Jon answer: The construction materials has probably already been fixed but
has not yet made it into the development_branch (hopefully any day now)."

2) When I open the ".cfg" file I am not able to click on the "image control"
to change the view point (nothing happens) and the same I can not "capture"
the picture of the model (something fails after 2 seconds and the interface
closed).

3) Last problem is in the *DATABASES description. I don't know why but Esp
"automatically" inserts in the ".cfg" file of my model a new line in the
*DATABASES list. The line is the following:

*mscldb  /usr/local/esru/esp-r/
databases/mscomp.db1

I never see this file and I also do not need it (I guess). But if I leave it
I receive this massage:
"Unknown entry format...
*DATABASES

I can click on "continue" and aswer yes to continue reading the
configuration.

Now, if a delete it everything works good. But ESP-r after a change in the
model try to create this "*mscldb" link again.


We also try to install the ESP-r version 11.7 (using gcc4.3).

We had again the problem number 2) but not the problem number 1). Moreover
we have the following problem:

4) When we enter in the "database maintainance", "optical properties",
"browse/edit" and than I click on a Optical property set I received strange
lines instead of the correct graphs representing the Direct transmission,
the reflection and the absorption of the optical set.

"JON answer: The drawing of the optical properties is also probably a 64 bit
issue that you are the first to notice."


I think it is all. I hope that you can understand what I wrote and that you
can help us solving this problem.
Please let me know if something is unclear.
Best regards

Francesco


-- 
Dr. Francesco Frontini, MEng PhD in Buildings Engineering

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