Re: [XGP-devel] XGP 1.1.0 Hanging on Mac OS X 10.5.5

[Lindsey S. <ls...@ma...>]

(I have taken the liberty of copying this email to the xgp-devel list.)

On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Timothy Montgomery wrote:

> Thanks.   I'm new to the Mac, so I may not have my environment set  
> up correctly, but I tried to pull down the latest code, and then the  
> posted 1.1.0 code and couldn't get them to compile.

Building XGP is complicated. It is not a normal OS X application, or a  
normal UNIX application. Also, it has been around for 6 years or so  
across various versions of GCC, XCode, and OS X. It is a strange  
hybrid and as such it's build is unfortunately convoluted.

Only one other person has talked to me about attempting to build their  
own version. That was a year or two ago and I don't know if it ever  
worked for her. sigh.

> There seemed to be an XGPPreferences.nib file missing.   I could see  
> it in CVS, but it wouldn't pull with a check-out command.

XGPPreferences.nib is a vestige of an earlier implementation (before I  
could implement the preferences in prolog). You do not need it -- it  
can (and should) be deleted from the XGPDoc project.

> The project also seemed to require some binaries from the gprolog  
> installation.

You need various binaries from a special-for-XGP build of GProlog.  
This is described in build_notes.txt.

> I made copies of these into the project folder, and still received  
> some errors because an Allocate function seemed to be defined in  
> multiple places.    Were there some environment setup instructions  
> somewhere that we missed?

There are three documents I use to remind me how to build XGP. They  
are all part of the XGP source distribution, in the doc directory.  
They are: build_notes.txt, distribution_notes.txt, and  
project_maintenance.txt.

I try to keep these current and accurate. Let me know if they are  
helpful and if you have any ideas about how to improve them.

Regards,
Lindsey