Availability and Installation of the Xaw3d widget set

This section shortly describes how I usually install Kaleb Keithley's Xaw3d widget library on a Linux box. Certainly your mileage may vary on other Unix flavors.

• Get the sources for Xaw3d, either directly from ftp.x.org or better from one of ftp.x.org's mirror sites in your vicinity.

• Unpack the archive:

      tar xzvf Xaw3d-1.3.tar.gz 

• Enter the directory "xc/lib/Xaw3d":

      cd xc/lib/Xaw3d 

• Copy all header files to a location where the compiler finds them. On Linux I do:

      mkdir /usr/X11/include/X11/Xaw3d
      cp *.h /usr/X11/include/X11/Xaw3d 

• In case you want a Motif like scrollbar you should edit the Imakefile and uncomment the line

      # EXTRA_DEFINES = -DARROW_SCROLLBAR -DUSEGRAY 

  by removing the leading '#'.

• Generate the Makefile and compile the code:

      xmkmf
      make 

• Copy the library to a known place and create appropriate symbolic links:

      cp libXaw3d.so.6.1 /usr/local/lib/
      cd /usr/local/lib/
      ln -s libXaw3d.so.6.1 libXaw3d.so.6
      ln -s libXaw3d.so.6.1 libXaw3d.so 

• Let the system know about the existence of the new Xaw3d library::

      ldconfig -v