Re: [Swarm-Support] Mac OS X port

[James Marshall]

Ah,
  as if by magic... thanks very much. Well, that just shows my 
unfamiliarity with the Mac... perhaps it's worth including that in the 
install instructions, for the benefit of Mac newbies?
  I suppose I shouldn't be worried about those link warnings with your 
paths.
  Swarm on Mac looks great! Thanks for porting it!
        James

Bill Northcott wrote:
> On 08/09/2005, at 1:14 AM, James Marshall wrote:
>
> >   I'm having some problems using the latest Max OS X port (on  Tiger). 
> > I'm new to the Mac, but not to Swarm. I've followed the  instructions 
> > as posted on the webpage (installed XCode, and X11),  and while I can 
> > compile, problems (below) are thrown up, and the  executable produced 
> > doesn't work.
> >
> > image:~/ObjCSource/EPD2.1.2-2.1.1/EPD james$ ./EPD
> > error: TkExtra (instance)
> >
> > Abort trap
> > _____________________________________
>
>
> I am not sure why you don't want to hear from me!
>
> The answer to your problem is very simple:
> The error message is from Tk which is trying to create a Window on  the 
> X11 display.  Unlike other forms of UNIX/Linux MacOS X does not  use X11 
> for its normal display.  So before trying to run X11 code you  must 
> start X11 by double clicking the app in /Applications/ Utilities.  If 
> you have not started it Tk will barf.
>
> If you are using X11 a lot, you may want to go to System Preferences - > 
> Accounts and set it to autostart for your login.
>
> Hopefully, sometime real soon now, BLT 3.0 will ship with proper  MacOS 
> X Aqua support and we won't need X11 at all.
>
> Bill Northcott

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Dr James A. R. Marshall
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/marshall