AstroZaur-linux-port

This is a Linux port of AstroZaur application based on the state-of-the-art astronomical Swiss Ephemeris library. For more information, including usage instructions, see: http://strijar.ru/astrozaur/. The ported software has been succesfully built and run on RedHat RHEL 6 (32-bit), Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit) and Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) Linux distributions.

NOTE: The original software was written for the 32-bit Zaurus distribution. This port has been made to work also on 64-bit systems and the funcionality appears fine but no guarantees can be made with respect to completeness of the 64-bit port due to extensive use of pointers in the application.

Building

To build, simply run:

	./build.sh 

The resulting application binary can be found at ./build/AstroZaur/astrozaur . If you are building on a system that requires sudo access for installation, build with:

	USE_SUDO_INSTALL=sudo ./build.sh

Sourced contents of the Linux port

Note: other libraries (such as libxml2-dev, ncurses, libreadline-dev, libx11-dev, libxi-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libpng12-dev etc) may be needed to compile this software. This repository only includes those packages that needed explicit patching or specific versions for a functional port for Linux.

• The original [AstroZaur] 1 application deployed for Sharp Zaurus PDA:

    ./download/AstroZaur.tar.gz
  

• Fast Light Toolkit 2.0 [revision 5272] 2.

    ./download/fltk-2.0.x-r5272.tar.gz
  

• The [Lua] 3 programming language runtime version 5.1.5.

    ./download/lua-5.1.5.tar.gz
  

• The [Lua File System] 4 library.

    ./download/luafilesystem-master.zip
  

• The state-of-the-art [SWISS EPHEMERIS] 5 library by AstroDienst.

    ./download/swe_unix_src_1.79.00.tar.gz
  

Original patches in this Linux port

Copyright (c) Pawel Defée 2013

• The AstroZaur patch at:

    	./patches/AstroZaur.patch
  

  that corrects the following defects:

  • Compilation errors due to missing standard include files
  • Compilation errors due to invalid Make definitions
  • Crash due to memory corruption in Ubuntu Linux due to undeterministic usage of globally initialized objects.
  • Forced English language due to incorrect display of UTF-8 (Cyrillic) characters
  • 64-bit Linux support

• The FLTK patch at:

    	./patches/fltk-2.0.x-r5272.patch
  

  that corrects the following defects:

  • Linux system functions used improperly (scandir)
  • Out-of-bounds access for memory buffers in pixel blitting functions
  • Invalid pointer access in font handling functions

• The LFS patch at:

    	./patches/luafilesystem-master.patch
  

  that corrects the following defects:

  • Compilation errors when client Lua runtime is statically linked with the executable

• The Lua patch at:

    	./patches/lua-5.1.5.patch
  

  that corrects the following defects:

  • Modified compilation to generate position independent code.