[Gretl-devel] OS X build process

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> The resulting dmg should be available from:
> www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/nautz/downloads/software/gretl.dmg
> 
> To anybody else reading this: this is highly experimental, use 
> this only for testing purposes! And it's not a 100% current cvs 
> version, either. What else? Intel only. Maybe 10.5 (Leopard) 
> only, but I'm sure Allin will test it on 10.4.

The good news is that it's a perfectly well-formed dmg and the 
content looks fine.  The bad (but hardly unexpected) news is that 
it doesn't run on OS X 10.4 -- for lack of the libXrandr library. 
This must be part of the X11 installation on 10.5 but not 10.4.

I understand that between 10.4 and 10.5 Apple shifted from xfree86 
to xorg as the basis for their X11 installation.  It's quite 
likely hopeless (or if not quite that, then beyond the patience of 
mere mortals) trying to create a build that will run OK on both 
platforms.

Is there anyone out there who can test Sven's dmg on Leopard?  If 
it works generally on Leopard, perhaps we should amend the gretl 
OS X webpage to point to different dmg's for different OS X 
variants.  Sven, would it be OK if with 1.7.1 we point an SF link 
to uni-frankfurt?

Allin.