[Vis5d-users] Re: vis5d on Mac OS X (Darwin)

Hi - sorry to post a daft question but I've looked around and cant 
find an answer. What do you use for X/OpenGL in MacOS X? I know that 
aqua supports it but "configure"  in Vis5d.

Steven :- the one you posted below is looking for Mesa - Mesa wont 
compile without a "GLUT" - I'm confused. Thanks if you have time to 
reply to this.

Vic.

PS.
I'm really looking forward to using Vis5D on my mac - it would be 
even nicer if apple would do something about Java3D so that I can 
develop VisAD solutions there too....

>On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Edward (Ted) Mansell wrote:
>>  I've managed to compile vis5d (versions 4.3 and 5.1) under Mac OS X
>>  using Apple's version of gcc and with XFree86 installed.  (I mainly
>>  used the freebsd-x options except for -DLITTLE).  It does fine with
>>  isosurfaces and colored slices, but crashes on contour slices
>>  ("segmentation fault" in contour.c -- gdb says something about an
>>  address problem) and freezes when trying to clone a variable.
>
>I know that a number of bugs have been fixed since version 5.1... 
>
>I also know (because I use MacOS X myself at work) that the CVS version of
>Vis5d+ (vis5d.sourceforge.net) recently compiled "out of the box" on MacOS
>X (assuming you have the latest XFree86 from XonX installed), and contour
>slices work just fine.
>
>Unfortunately, Vis5d+ 1.1 doesn't quite compile out of the box; a couple
>of patches were needed because I forgot to test that release on a machine
>(like MacOS X) lacking a Fortran compiler, which is why I point to the CVS
>version above.  (I'll try to get a Vis5d+ 1.1.1 out the door in a short
>time to fix this problem.)
>
>Steven
>
>PS. For the impatient, I've posted a snapshot of the current 1.1.1 alpha
>at: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/download/vis5d+-1.1.1a1.tar.gz (I haven't
>tested this...just did a quick 'make dist'...let me know if it works).


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