[Gretl-devel] gretl on mac os10.5

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

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

I suspect that dlcompat is now redundant.

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

OK, that needs to be listed among the dependencies.

> 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.

The ms_ole stuff is part of the XLS importer, and is supposed to 
be platform-independent.  Could you please post the exact error 
you got in that context?  

I suspect that current CVS has a better chance of building on OS X 
10.5 than gretl 1.6.5, though I can't think of any relevant change 
in respect of ms_ole.

Allin.