Re: [Visualpython-users] OSX X11 VPython

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

The reason I haven't yet attempted to post information on compiling from 
source is that I have been unable to do this myself without an unacceptably 
difficult procedure. What I had to do was wipe out everything (including 
X11) and spend many many hours installing source versions of EVERYTHING 
(including X11, Python, etc.) and many hours compiling everything. I have 
been unable to determine why this is necessary; in principle I don't see 
why I shouldn't be able to compile against the include files that come with 
the binary distributions of X11 etc., but I get strange loader errors.

In my conversations with Steve Spicklemire, who was the one who figured out 
how to compile and run VPython on Mac OSX, it isn't quite clear to me 
whether he did succeed in compiling Visual without a full source 
installation. Steve?

Mark Tomczak's experience in a sense is similar to mine: some strange 
sensitivity to exact details, in my case with source, in his case with 
binaries. I have no idea what's going on. I'm relieved to hear that Frank 
Wolfs was able to install without having to reinstall X11.

Bruce Sherwood

--On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:06 AM -0500 Steve Spicklemire 
<st...@sp...> wrote:

> My guess is you'll need to recompile VPython with your setup. Bruce,
> Maybe the source for the MacOSX version could be including in the
> installer so folks with different X setups could build their own? Mark,
> you might just try to download the linux sources, but use this patch to
> fixup the Makefile for MacOSX: