Are there other people out there who compile their own PyMol on the
Mac and who have succeeded with MacOS 10.4 (Tiger)?
After updating my Mac to Tiger, my PyMol installation doesn't work
anymore:
~> pymol
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py", line 90, in ?
import pymol
File "/usr/local/lib/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py", line 306, in ?
import _cmd
ImportError: Failure linking new module: /usr/local/lib/pymol/modules/
pymol/_cmd.so: Symbol not found: _gluCylinder
Referenced from: /sw/lib/libglut.3.dylib
Expected in: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.1.dylib
I guess that something has changed in Apple's OpenGL libraries. My
first reaction was to reinstall PyMol from sources in the same way as
before (i.e. using the Distutils installation method and Fink's
installation of Python 2.3). This fails pretty quickly due to some
problem with the GLUT headers:
In file included from layer0/os_gl.h:95,
from layer2/RepNonbondedSphere.c:19:
/sw/include/GL/glut.h:432: error: parse error before "layer"
/sw/include/GL/glut.h:432: warning: function declaration isn't a
prototype
/sw/include/GL/glut.h:490: error: parse error before "GLfloat"
/sw/include/GL/glut.h:490: warning: function declaration isn't a
prototype
...
This is perhaps not so surprising, because I didn't update Fink after
updating to 10.4 - because that didn't work either. In fact, I am
sufficiently fed up with the fragility of Fink that I would like to
get rid of it entirely.
So I thought I should try to use MacPython 2.4.1 (my everyday Python
on the Mac) and Apple's OpenGL and GLUT frameworks. That required a
few patches to the PyMol sources (the includes need to be changed
from GL/... to OpenGL/...) and a bit of tweaking setup.py plus some
manual intervention (Distutils doesn't handle -framework parameters),
but I got an error-free compile pretty quickly. I can then even start
PyMol, but it messes up my screen to the point that I need to go to
sleep mode and then restart to get the Finder redrawn. And I am not
even sure that my approach is reasonable, given that with MacPython I
also use Aqua-Tk, and thus no X11 at all. Window handling ought to be
different then.
Does anyone have more ideas for getting this to work? I don't care
which Python and which Tk I use, as long as I can add my own Python
modules and get PyMol with NumPy support.
Konrad.
