Re: [Mesa3d-users] Building Mesa libs on Mac OS X, for use with VisIt

[Brian P. <bri...@tu...>]

Stedman Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If anyone has any advice on this I would really appreciate it.  My team 
> and I at the Kavli Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute are using Enzo 
> and LLNL's VisIt (llnl.gov/visit) to render simulations of star 
> formation in the early universe.  That said, the main thing is that 
> we're primarily working on the Mac OS, and I need to build the Mesa libs 
> for the Mac, because Visit relies on them.  Unfortunately, running make 
> (make darwin for Mesa 5.0, or configure and then make, for Mesa 6.2) 
> stops short with errors, about (surprisingly!) not being able to find 
> X11 libs.  Could anyone explain to me exactly which makefiles I need to 
> edit to get Mesa to build?  The only libs I need are libGL.dylib and 
> libOSMesa.dylib.  So as long as I can get the compiler to grind these 
> out without trying to link X11 libs, I should be fine.  The thing is, 
> Visit only relies on Mesa for off-screen rendering.  But Mesa still 
> plays that crucial role.
> I am pretty familiar with Unix (bash) syntax but am only relatively new 
> to Makefiles.  Thank you for any help!

Edit Mesa-6.2/src/mesa/Makefile and remove $(X11_DRIVER_SOURCES) near 
line 77.

Put the attached darwin-no-x11 file in your Mesa-6.2/configs/ directory.

Edit Mesa-6.2/Makefile and add a line for darwin-no-x11 near line 53.

Then, 'make realclean' and 'make darwin-no-x11'

I'm not sure this will all work, but it should get you going in the 
right direction.

-Brian