[Gretl-users] MAC installation

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Peter Davidoff wrote:

> I have three students on MACs who have not been able to install 
> GRETL.  I passed on the thread from last October but it hasn't 
> helped.  The problem seems to be no X11.  Any thoughts?

I'm afraid that at present X11 is an absolute pre-requisite for 
using gretl on OS X.  This may change at some point: there is work 
in progress to develop a "native" version of GTK (the GUI toolkit 
used by gretl) for OS X, with no X11 dependency.  As soon as that 
becomes available in a reasonably stable form I will switch over 
to it.

In the meantime, I'm sure there's an Apple X11 kit on the OS X 
Tiger installation DVD.  I guess it's not installed by default, 
but you can plug the DVD back in and select components to add.

Allin Cottrell.