Re: Need help on running the application

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Chamila Adhikarinayake 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Again,
> 
> I'm new to building applications by compiling the source in linux.up
> to now i managed to compile the code without any problem.
> (I'm using Gnote).I did ./autogen.sh, make , make install. every thing
> went fine.
> 

Good to hear.

> 
> this may be dumb question.
> 

No question is dumb - ask away!

> i want to know how to run the application
> after that.I found gnote in /usr/local/bin. is this the one i should
> run?.
> 

Probably yes, though you have two choices.  You could run 
/usr/local/bin/gnote, which is the installed binary and which should 
definitely work.  You'll also find a file src/gnote in the build 
directory which is actually a shell script that begins with this:

#! /bin/bash
# gnote - temporary wrapper script for .libs/gnote
# Generated by libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 Debian-2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1

If you have already installed gnote once, then you can probably run 
this shell script rather than /usr/local/bin/gnote.  You might want to 
do this so that you don't have to run 'make install' after every build 
cycle - you can just run src/gnote instead, as long as there are new 
data files which need to be installed.

> (I tried to run it by using ./gnote but i got "./gnote: error
> while loading shared libraries: libgnote-3.9.so.1: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory" error message)
> 

Which directory were you in when you ran ./gnote?  I'd be surprised if 
you saw a binary file 'gnote' in the top-level build directory, since 
(on my machine at least) building gnote generates a file 'gnote' only 
in the src subdirectory.

> 
> I really want to do some coding but i don't know how to test it
> without running the app (or is there a different way to test the
> code).
>  If i'm doing things wrong, can some one give the all the  steps or
> give some links for some tutorials.
> 

I hope this is enough, but if you have more questions don't hesitate to 
ask again.  Cheers -

adam

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