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

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).