I'm sure Allin will find this information useful; I think he's currently offline. good luck, sven
Gordon Hughes schrieb: > I installed the gretl.app from the dmg file provided via the gretl > website. Double clicking on the application icon fails to initiate > X11 and generates an error message that gretl requires X11 to > function. Hence, I started X11 separately and then double clicked on > gretl. This generates the error message "Application gretl_x11 quit > unexpectedly". The report contains the following error message > > Dyld Error Message: > Library not loaded: /Users/allin/misc/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib > Referenced from: > /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gretl_x11 > Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: > > /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib: > mach-o, but wrong architecture > > so that there is a mismatch of the libfftw3.3 library. I assume that > the reference to "wrong architecture" means that the library is not a > universal binary (I am experimenting on an Intel Mac Mini). > > I have updated my system to include the latest fixes from Apple, so > that may include Version 10.5.1. As I explained I was not able to > find how to execute ./gretl because I cannot get to the right location > in xterm. In any case, the error message suggests that the outcome > would not be any different. > > Regards > > Gordon Hughes > >> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:22:31 +0100 >> From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net> >> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard >> To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu> >> Message-ID: <47531407.7010501(a)gmx.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed >> >> Gordon Hughes schrieb: >> > This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of >> > OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl does >> > not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor am I >> > able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme pdf file >> > because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... specified. I was >> > able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 (Tiger) of OS-X without >> > any significant difficulty. >> >> With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking, >> either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the >> appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work for >> you or what happened? >> >> > >> > From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of >> > unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so >> > that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work >> > with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not >> > important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a >> > Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for >> > those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned >> > upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with a >> > version of X11 that functions properly. >> 10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the >> pre-release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described >> on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the other >> fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a >> pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.) >> >> But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well remain >> some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be any >> fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical problems >> notwithstanding). >> >> thanks, >> sven > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users >
