[dexter1]

I'm getting somewhere with the build of Python 2.7.16 and i discovered several Modules in the source code which are specifically targeted for SGI's:

Code:

# SGI IRIX specific modules -- off by default.

# These module work on any SGI machine:

# *** gl must be enabled higher up in this file ***
#fm fmmodule.c $(GLHACK) -lfm -lgl              # Font Manager
#sgi sgimodule.c                        # sgi.nap() and a few more

# This module requires the header file
# /usr/people/4Dgifts/iristools/include/izoom.h:
#imgfile imgfile.c -limage -lgutil -lgl -lm     # Image Processing Utilities


# These modules require the Multimedia Development Option (I think):

#al almodule.c -laudio                  # Audio Library
#cd cdmodule.c -lcdaudio -lds -lmediad  # CD Audio Library
#cl clmodule.c -lcl -lawareaudio        # Compression Library
#sv svmodule.c yuvconvert.c -lsvideo -lXext -lX11       # Starter Video


# The FORMS library, by Mark Overmars, implements user interface
# components such as dialogs and buttons using SGI's GL and FM
# libraries.  You must ftp the FORMS library separately from
# ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/SGI/FORMS.  It was tested with FORMS 2.2a.
# NOTE: if you want to be able to use FORMS and curses simultaneously
# (or both link them statically into the same binary), you must
# compile all of FORMS with the cc option "-Dclear=__GLclear".

# The FORMS variable must point to the FORMS subdirectory of the forms
# toplevel directory:

#FORMS=/ufs/guido/src/forms/FORMS
#fl flmodule.c -I$(FORMS) $(GLHACK) $(FORMS)/libforms.a -lfm -lgl

So i'm going to attempt to include these in my dual Nekoware build, but for the FORMS Module code i need the FORMS source from the University of Utrecht ftp site. Unfortunately that is no longer available and archive.org doesn't have a post 2000 snapshot of that particular directory.

Any chance that someone has this stashed/archived?

[dexter1]

I've compiled and packaged the FORMS library and it looks to be a nice vintage toolkit for irisGL. It should also compile and work with IRIX 4 and 5 since it was released in 1992.
Comes complete with design tool 'fdesign' and 44 demo programs which show its capabilities



This package is a prerequisite for an old Python 2.7 IRIX-specific module i have resurrected with irisGL and iris Font Manager as requirements.
I've placed the package in the dual-mips3-mips4 nekoware depot, but has no dependencies so you can check it out without pain.