Re: [Swarm-Support] Mac OS X port

[Gary McKeown]

James,
I have been using Bill's MacOSX port successfully for a while now, I  
too get warnings upon build about the references to Bill's machine  
but they do not seem to impede the use of Swarm simulations in any  
way, and I have just put them down to the idiosyncrasies of the  
build. You are probably looking for the problem in the wrong place  
due to these warnings.

Bill,
I saw on the R-SIG-mac list a while ago that you were preparing new  
Tiger swarm builds, how is the progress, are you waiting on BLT 3.0?  
What is the current status? and thanks for all the work.

Gary


On 8 Sep 2005, at 00:06, 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 Gary McKeown,
Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Queen's University Belfast
United Kingdom