[Gretl-devel] gretl on mac os10.5

[Sven Schreiber]

Hi,

here are my experiences with gretl (1.6.5) on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), 
on an Intel Mac:

The dmg (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-1.6.5.dmg) mostly 
works: I can run gretl with the ./gretl command described on 
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html; however, double-clicking gives an 
error saying that X11 couldn't be started or something like that.

Then I tried to build from source, so I installed the most recent fink 
version (0.27.9?) and followed the steps on 
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html. It didn't work, here's what went 
wrong:

1) installing "dlcompat" gave me a (fink) error "no package found for 
specification" (BTW, I think I configured fink to use the "unstable" 
packages to get more recent versions. Could that be a problem?)

2) I proceeded anyway and then gretl's configure script complained about 
missing fftw3, so I installed that under fink as well.

3) Then configure went ok, but on make I got an error with 
ms_ole_open_vfs. That sounds very windows-ish to me, so I guess some 
platform check failed.

Any ideas? Has anything changed since 1.6.5 that could help?

thanks,
sven