On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 03:16 America/New_York, chris clepper wrote:
Why are you suggesting fink at all for the OSX version of GEM?? There
are no fink packages that will work with GEM - everything needed comes
with OSX (and is for the most part far better than what you could pull
out of fink anyway). So simply put: there are precisely 0 things to
install on an OSX box to get GEM working. You can take a Mac out of
the shrink-wrap, boot it, download or copy the pd and GEM binaries
onto the machine and start using them both. I've actually done this.
This is great. I initially thought GEM needed glut from fink, but I
have since been corrected. The MacOS X installer includes PDP, which
does need additional libs, so that's why I recommend:
sudo apt-get install gsl-shlibs libpng-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs
libquicktime0-shlibs libmpeg libmpeg-shlibs ffmpeg
As for this last response, I guess I wasn't thinking about GEM
problems, just the fink problem...
Any problems with loading GEM have to do with incorrect paths or
permissions or the like, and problems running GEM almost always come
down to hardware problems or someone is trying to run it on a system
prior to 10.2. I guess we'll have to throw a big error message in the
startup informing users of the latter.
Good to know. I support as many error messages as possible. Verbose
error messages make things much easier to troubleshoot, especially when
the problem is sent to you in an email.
.hc
cgc
You should post such questions to the list, not just to me.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gsl-shlibs is the
packages that you need. apt-get won't work, you'll need to:fink install gsl-shlibs
and you need to use the fink 'unstable' sources.
.pdrc should be in the the home folder of the account you normally
log in as. Open a new window in Terminal.app, open a new window in
Terminal.app, type "cd". That is where it should go..hc
But i still have the "couldn't create" error messages to gemwin,
etc. The Gem patches just appear without cords, unconnected
objects. (i have already installed the other libs through Fink:
sudo apt-get install glut glut-shlibs gsl-shlibs libpng-shlibs
libpng3 libpng3-shlibs libquicktime0-shlibs libmpeg libmpeg-shlibs ffmpegbut as you can see here:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?s=gsl-shlibs there are no packages of gsl-shlibs...though i think that wouldn't
be the reason for Gem not loading. [i have added to the fink.config tree th lines to search also for
the unstable sources]
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