Hi there,

I'm attempting to use hcustom from my laptop, on which I'm running Ubuntu.

%> uname -a
Linux gort 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
%> echo $MACHTYPE
i486-pc-linux-gnu

I have installed houdini-9.5.275-linux_i686_gcc4.1.tar.gz and when I try to compile, I get: “Unknown platform, please change the script /opt/hfs9.5.275/bin/hcustom”

Does anyone know what I should do from here?

So just commented out the “exit 1” and the compile starts to go through. <shrugs>

However, now it's complaining that there is no Xi library on my system. My Ubuntu is a fresh 8.04 install, by the way. Does anyone know what the Xi library is, and what I need to install?

Found it, I have to install xi-dev package (X11 input library).

Seems to work now However, hcustom might need to be modified by SESI to make this easier. I'm going to write down the things I had to do on the OdWiki HDK FAQ.

Hi Jason

Talking to your self,

this help me compile the ocean toolkit, thank you