

It is true of many programs because programs depend on "shared libraries" that are offered by the OS.

The program that Stata delivers to you is incomplete. I may not have "layman's terms" to explain, but I have novice Linux user terms, and that's probably what you need. Alessio Tomasino's request for an explanation is well justified! I just went through this in an Ubuntu-18.04 system and I can explain what's going on.

Hi there, can you explain the steps to write the wrapper in a layman language please? I am stuck at the step and cannot get Stata to show the icons. For example, if your license is for Stata/IC, then you could use theįollowing Alias placed in your $PATH environment variable:Īlias xstatamp='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/zlib-1.2.3/lib:/usr/local/libpng-1.6.2/lib/usr/local/stata13/xstata' Or, you can create an alias to launch the version of Stata you are licensed to

Just typing 'stata' without arguments should give you a quick syntax diagram. To launch the console version of Stata/MP, type: Now, when you want to launch the GUI version of Stata/MP, for example, type: You can copy the above script to a file named 'stata', set its permissions toīe executable, and place it in a directory located in your $PATH environment With normal system operations, I would suggest writing either a wrapper or anĪlias for the Stata executables, something like this: Since you don't want these libraries to interfere Now that you have finished building the libraries, you must instruct Stata on scripts/pnglibconf.dfa (comment out the line include ") configure -prefix=/usr/local/libpng-1.6.2 $ export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/zlib-1.2.3/include -fPIC" When that is complete, you will need to download the source code for two Include recompiling some libraries, so do not attempt unless you feel confident in doing so.įirst, make sure you have a development environment installed:
