maciej wojnicki wrote:

hello list

I have a problem with this message: Gem has been compiled without font support. that I recieve when trying to use text3d object

I know that thishave been discussed before on this list and the end point was tha implementation of thex under OSX is not finished.

i don't know know where you have heard this, but it is definitely wrong.

I`d like to know if there is any version of gem available with text

see http://gem.iem.at all "official" versions of Gem come with text support (afaik)

support on OSX or is it possible to compile it and if so then could someone help me with it as I have no idea how to compile it myself.

obivously it is possible to compile Gem, sice the devs do so ;-)

compiling a _basic_ Gem is as simple as: installing the xcode tools. checkout Gem open a console, "cd Gem/src" and do "make" (running "make" will run "aclocal", "autoconf", "./configure" and "make") this however, will still give you no text-support. (but at least you have managed to compile Gem; this is a good start)

to add text support you need freetype2 and FTGL; the latter is part of GemLibs. to install freetype2 either get it from the web (afaik this is a sourceforge probject) and compile+install it (according to the documentation that comes with it) the simpler way is, to install the freetype2 and freetype2-dev packages via fink. then compile and install FTGL (open the FTGL-project in GemLibs/FTGL/mac, adapt to your paths and compile)

then run "./configure" in Gem/src (after running "aclocal" and "autoconf" once!), probably with some paths to point to your FTGL-installation (see "./configure --help")

fmg.asdr IOhannes