AMIDE: Amide's a Medical Imaging Data Examiner

Old issues that you are not likely to encounter

• I'm trying to install the RPM, what's this libgcc thing that's required?

  libgcc is a small library needed to run some apps that have been compiled with gcc versions 3.0 and up (i.e. AMIDE). An rpm package is available for redhat 7.3 (and up) which should solve this dependency.



• What version of gcc should I be using to compile AMIDE?

  A version of gcc >= 3.0.4. Previous versions of gcc (especially 2.96, shipped with Redhat and Mandrake distributions, but even 3.0.3) have generated compilation errors when compiling with optimizations. The configuration script shipped with AMIDE will detect versions of gcc previous to 3.0.4 and complain, but allows using these compilers with optimizations turned off.



• Linking AMIDE fails because libdb1 can't be found.

  Check if "gnome-config --libs" returns a "-ldb1" as part of the string of libraries returned. If this is the case, the problem is that gnome-config on your system still wants to link programs to libdb1, but libdb1 is depreciated and has been removed from current versions of glibc. One solution (at least on Mandrake 8.0) is to install the db1 and db1-devel RPM package.



• When compiling AMIDE, I get a bunch of warnings about not being able to find gtk header files, like:

  In file included from amide.c:27:
  /usr/include/gnome.h:6: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from /usr/include/gdk_imlib.h:5,
                   from /usr/include/gnome.h:7,
                   from amide.c:27:
     

  I've seen this mainly with people who have upgraded to the Ximian gnome packages. The location of the gtk header files has changed in recent times from /usr/include/gtk to /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk (in line with the imminent emergence of gtk-2.0). The problem is that the gnome header files that come with ximian still point to the wrong location. This will most likely be fixed in future releases of Ximian/Gnome, but until then, the work around is to (as root) :

     cd /usr/include
     ln -s gtk-1.2/gtk/ gtk
     ln -s gtk-1.2/gdk/ gdk
     ln -s glib-1.2/glib.h glib.h
     

  Alternatively, if you don't have root, you can make the following links in the AMIDE source directory. This will allow AMIDE to compile, but doesn't help you if you're having problems compiling other Gtk+/GNOME programs: (thanks to Steve Robbins)

     ln -s /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk .
     ln -s /usr/include/gdk-1.2/gdk .
     ln -s /usr/include/glib-1.2/* .
     



• AMIDE crashes when generating an MPEG.

  This is most likely due to a problem with libfame. Libfame has a fair amount of assembly code optimized functions, and this ends up making it fairly finicky as to which version of gcc it's compiled with.

  The solution is to rebuild libfame with "--enable-mmx=no" passed to the configure script. This will disable the assembly code functions, and use the straight C code ones instead. I've actually never been able to compile a stable version of libfame without disabling mmx.



• AMIDE crashes on Windows.

  Before you email the user's list, check which version of the GTK runtime you're using. About half the time people run into problems with the Windows version of AMIDE, it's because they've installed the wrong version of the GTK runtime. The runtime that AMIDE is currently built against is Dropline version 2.2.4-3, available here. As AMIDE is compiled against this specific version of the runtime, using newer versions of the runtime will often lead to weird errors and crashes.



• On Mac OS X, staring up AMIDE fails with a "cannot open display" warning.

  You're probably trying to run AMIDE from Terminal.app instead of X11.app. AMIDE is an X11 application, meaning an X11 server needs to be running to accept the graphical display of AMIDE. On Mac OS X, the X11 server is called X11.app. Start up X11.app, then start an x-terminal within X11.app (Menu: Applications->Terminal), and then run AMIDE by typing "amide" at the x-terminal's command prompt.



• I'm trying to install on Mac OS X 10.4. I've followed the directions, but I'm getting the following error message:

  my_macosx_computer:/Users/my_name my_name# amide
  dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
       Referenced from: /sw/bin/amide
       Reason: Incompatible library version: amide requires version 6.0.0
  or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 5.0.0
  Trace/BPT trap
     

  This problem is caused by having an old version of fink on your computer. Try upgrading fink by running:

  fink selfupdate