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.
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.
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 ffmpeg
but 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]