path workbench libgfortran.so.4 not found

[axk]

Hi guys, I'm trying out the path workbench for the first time and hitting a run time error finding libgfortran.so.4


I tried to bring up cmake-gui and change the pointer, but its not visible in the advanced settings.
I did find this on my system:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 1 10:09 libgfortran.so -> libgfortran.so.5.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 1 10:09 libgfortran.so.5 -> libgfortran.so.5.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10886576 Jun 1 10:09 libgfortran.so.5.0.0

Any advice on how to get freecad to load the correct .so ?

thanks

[axk]

forgot to cut/paste info freecad info:

OS: "Artix"
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.13999 (Git)
Build type: Unknown
Branch: master
Hash: ab1520b872821414c6ce4a15fb85d471ac2a2b03
Python version: 2.7.15
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 3.1.3
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[chrisb]

How far did you get with the Path WB?

[axk]

Unfortunately not very far: I click on Path WB and it pops up that error.
The tool bar buttons do not switch to path (I had it on Part, and they remained).

[chrisb]

Unfortunately not very far: I click on Path WB and it pops up that error.
The tool bar buttons do not switch to path (I had it on Part, and they remained).

That's indeed not very far. I wonder what a fortran lib is doing in that state, I wasn't aware that fortran is used at all.
Can you please try the Appimage? It has near to none dependencies to other libraries.

[triplus]

Does the AppImage option work?

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/rele ... g/0.18_pre

[NormandC]

That's indeed not very far. I wonder what a fortran lib is doing in that state, I wasn't aware that fortran is used at all.

I was surprised too, we removed gfortran dependency from the Ubuntu PPA packages years ago.

I just checked the dependencies for the freecad-stable PPA package, and it does depend on libgfortran. It is not explicitly set as build dependency, so this means that some other library depends on it.

After some checking, it seems that a few packages FreeCAD depends on libgfortran4: calculix-ccx, libmed1v5, libhdf5-*.

[chrisb]

After some checking, it seems that a few packages FreeCAD depends on libgfortran4: calculix-ccx, libmed1v5, libhdf5-*.

Thanks for digging. I think Path workbench uses only libarea, so I still wonder where the problems come from.

[axk]

Thanks for the detailed explanation on the dependency.
Just for fun I tried symlinking libgfortran.so.4 -> libgfortran.so.5, that yielded another error about gfortran_7 not found (required by /usr/lib/libmed.so.1).
Was worth a shot

I checked to see where libgfortran was originating, and my package manager shows:
[monolith lib]# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgfortran.so
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so is owned by gcc-libs 8.1.1+20180531-1

I'm a little hesitant to backstep gcc-libs as I don't need the path workbench and can make do with my old windows CAM software in a VM.

[chrisb]

Libmed seems to be created by vejmarie.

vejmarie

Can you please weigh in?