[Gretl-users] Gretl and Mac OS

[cottrell at ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu]

> First of all sorry if this has been already solved but although I
> found a couple of messages dealing with the same issue in the
> archives, I have not found an answer.
>
> The fact is that I'm running Gretl 1.5.1 on Mac OS X (by using the
> script gretl.sh in the bin folder) but I cannot make plots. When I
> try to, the following message pops up
> ====
> yld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/
> ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/
> Versions/A/Resources/libPng.dylib
>    Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/
> ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/
> Versions/A/ImageIO
>    Reason: Incompatible library version: ImageIO requires version
> 1.0.0 or later, but libPng.dylib provides version 0.1.2

What message do you get if you try to start gnuplot directly
from the command prompt in a terminal window?  There's an
incompatibility of some kind between libpng versions, but from
the above I can't work out exactly what's going on (e.g. what
exactly is invoking the ImageIO "framework").

Allin Cottrell