Dia does not run on Lion
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#61 Dia does not run on Lion
The currently available Dia package does not run on OS X Lion. It includes its own libiconv.2.dylib that references a symbol "_iconv" that is not found in the system copy of CUPS.
It's a simple thing to make it work... rename or remove /Applications/Dia.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libiconv.2.dylib, which will force the system to use the Lion-provided copy of the library in /usr/lib.
I've created an updated DMG according to your suggestion:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dia-installer/files/dia/0.97.1/Dia-0.97.1-2.dmg/download
As I'm unable to test myself on Lion, I'm looking forward to your feedback.
It works, but I just realized there's another problem... the dock never seems to figure out that the application has actually launched. The bead sits there pulsating forever (well, until you close the app).
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I tried the updated DMG on a recently upgraded Lion OS, but still does not launch. Here is the error:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin/dia-bin
Reason: Incompatible library version: dia-bin requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
Thanks.
THAT is the same problem I had, but a different REASON. Your system is still finding some other copy of libiconv.2.dylib before the system copy. Yours looks like you have Macports installed... have you updated that for Lion?
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No, don't have Macports installed, not even XCode on this machine. I did a find on my machine, no other libiconv.2.dylib installed accept for the one in /usr/lib. Strange that dia is looking at /opt/local/lib - /opt doesn't exist on this system.
I ran dia on this machine when it had snow leopard just fine, only after doing the Lion upgrade it has this problem.
Any help appreciated.
Dia now runs on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Grab the updated DMG from http://dia-installer.de/download/macosx.html Sorry that it took so long. The actual fix was just one line. The development environment came a little bit late. The good news is that Lion comes with X11 pre-installed so there's nothing else that needs to be installed. Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks to all that helped tracking down the problem!