[Gretl-devel] Gretl on Apple 10.4.11

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> I'm no expert on Macs (in fact, I don't even own one), but it would seem
> you're not the only one experiencing problems: see if you can find helpful
> hints from the recent debate on the user list
> http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2007-December/thread.html
> 
> Alternatively, you may want to try 1.6.5 and see if it fixes things for you:
> you can find it at
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-1.6.5.dmg?modtime=1179397378&big_mirror=0
> Of course, you'd miss all the nice things we've put into 1.7.0, but maybe
> 1.6.5 is good enough for your project.

Just to confirm what Jack said: the 1.7.0 dmg file is strictly for 
Intel Macs.  The 1.6.5 dmg is OK for PPC, and should also work on 
Intel via the built-in Mac emulation.

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-1.7.0.dmg
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-1.6.5.dmg

There's also the last build of CVS gretl that I was able to make 
for PPC, which falls between 1.6.5 and 1.7.0 (July, 2007):

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-cvs-ppc.dmg

Also please be sure to check

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/README.pdf

Allin Cottrell