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DimGR
01-19-2005, 01:51 AM
im downloading it right now ..


http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/vp8info.html

hard candy
01-19-2005, 11:15 AM
How about a Howto if you get it installed?

bwkaz
01-22-2005, 11:25 AM
Well, I will. ;)

First, you need /bin/csh (a C shell). I'd recommend tcsh instead of the original csh -- as I understand it, it's about equivalent to bash vs. sh. Plus it fixes a lot of misfeatures in the original csh. But anyway, most of the scripts in SPECviewperf are C-shell scripts, so you need that.

Second, you need to build it yourself. That package does contain some Windows exe's, but no prebuilt executables for any other OS. To build it:

(0) Make sure there's enough space on the filesystem that you unpack into. It requires about 1.4 gigs to both build and run. (!)

(1) cd into src/

(2) Run ./CONFIGURE

(3) CONFIGURE will ask you some questions. Answer 1 to the first one (you're using Linux, right?), and anser gcc to the second one (which is the default).

(4) Run make

(5) If make bombs out in vpaux/libtk with a whole ton of errors (the first ones will be "can't find X11/Xlib.h" and some other X11/*.h files), then you'll need to either:

(5a) edit vpaux/libtk/Makefile and add -I/usr/X11R6/include to the INCLUDES variable (that's dash, i, then the path), and then also edit vpaux/libaux/Makefile and add the same string to CFLAGS, or:

(5b) Make a symlink: ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11

After doing either of these, restart make. It should run to completion, assuming you have your distro's XFree86 or X.org development packages installed (you also probably need libpng-devel, and maybe a couple others).

(6) cd back up out of the src directory, and run the ./Run_All.csh script. It'll run for a while giving you some pretty pictures, then it'll give you a set of results.

My results look like this:

Run All Summary
3dsmax-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 9.623
catia-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.769
ensight-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.927
light-07 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.375
maya-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 7.320
proe-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 9.320
sw-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.186
ugs-04 Weighted Geometric Mean = 3.994