[Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard

[Sven Schreiber]

I'm sure Allin will find this information useful; I think he's currently 
offline.
good luck,
sven

Gordon Hughes schrieb:
> I installed the gretl.app from the dmg file provided via the gretl 
> website.  Double clicking on the application icon fails to initiate 
> X11 and generates an error message that gretl requires X11 to 
> function.  Hence, I started X11 separately and then double clicked on 
> gretl.  This generates the error message "Application gretl_x11 quit 
> unexpectedly".  The report contains the following error message
>
> Dyld Error Message:
>   Library not loaded: /Users/allin/misc/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib
>   Referenced from: 
> /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gretl_x11
>   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
>         
> /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib: 
> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>
> so that there is a mismatch of the libfftw3.3 library.  I assume that 
> the reference to "wrong architecture" means that the library is not a 
> universal binary (I am experimenting on an Intel Mac Mini).
>
> I have updated my system to include the latest fixes from Apple, so 
> that may include Version 10.5.1.  As I explained I was not able to 
> find how to execute ./gretl because I cannot get to the right location 
> in xterm.  In any case, the error message suggests that the outcome 
> would not be any different.
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon Hughes
>
>> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:22:31 +0100
>> From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch at gmx.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
>> To: Gretl list <gretl-users at lists.wfu.edu>
>> Message-ID: <47531407.7010501 at gmx.net>
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>> Gordon Hughes schrieb:
>> > This is a general warning.  I have recently upgraded the version of
>> > OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard).  I have found that Gretl does
>> > not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard.  Nor am I
>> > able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme pdf file
>> > because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... specified.  I was
>> > able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 (Tiger) of OS-X without
>> > any significant difficulty.
>>
>> With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking,
>> either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the
>> appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work for
>> you or what happened?
>>
>> >
>> > From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of
>> > unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so
>> > that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work
>> > with Leopard until these problems are sorted out.  This is not
>> > important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a
>> > Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion.  However, for
>> > those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned
>> > upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with a
>> > version of X11 that functions properly.
>> 10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the
>> pre-release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described
>> on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the other
>> fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a
>> pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.)
>>
>> But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well remain
>> some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be any
>> fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical problems
>> notwithstanding).
>>
>> thanks,
>> sven
>
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