On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:13 PM, John Tull wrote: >> I looked at it today. They have a good wiki page on compiling for OS X, and >> I got it compiled with minor tweaks. Now that I understand how Saga is used >> in Sextante, and how Saga in installed, I think Saga could be bundled with >> QGIS. The saga_cmd would be in the app package bin/ where it would be found >> automatically by QGIS, and the libraries in lib/. >> >> If saga_cmd loads command libraries by relative path (ie ../lib/saga, as >> they are installed), this would work simply without any environment settings. >> >> But if saga loads them by absolute path (ie the configured --prefix), and >> there is no env setting to set a different path, this would be bad since it >> would lock down the whole QGIS app to the build path (a Mac app should work >> if the user moves or renames it, though it is kindof discouraged since it >> confuses installers). I could try an easy test outside of sextante/qgis by >> renaming my saga install folder and trying to run a simple command. > > Does it look like something worth creating as a framework? Having the > commandline saga might be useful for some if it is not nontrivial. > Well, the OS X build wiki page says you can package it as an app, which makes sense, though it's not part of the standard make install. The saga_gui program is what gets launched in that case.
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