> With a small amount of work by us the OSX people could also have an > easy source install of Xastir.
I didn't realize that there wasn't an easy source install of Xastir on OSX--I did it last week without any hiccups. Maybe I should share my work (I just have bash history, although there are a few graphical steps). 1. Download and install Macports from http://www.macports.org/install.php. I downloaded the dmg, install was painless. 2. Open Terminal 3. I found that OSX couldn't find port, so run "export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH" 4. Install stuff: "sudo port install lesstif imageMagick db45 pcre proj gdal" (it sounds like openmotif causes problems, so I used lesstif). This command runs for a long time. 5. Follow the shapelib instructions here: http://n1ofz.connares.org/software/build (looks like credit goes to Bill Owen, N2RKL, for this): 5a. Download http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/shapelib/shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz 5b. Go to the directory that you downloaded the shapelib source with the cd command then type in the following list of commands: tar xvzf shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz cd shapelib-1.2.10 cc -c shpopen.c cc -c shptree.c cc -c dbfopen.c ar cru libshp.a shpopen.o shptree.o dbfopen.o sudo cp libshp.a /usr/local/lib sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libshp.a sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/libshp sudo cp shapefil.h /usr/local/include/libshp 6. This is in my bash history: tar zvxf libgeotiff-1.2.5.tar.gz sudo tar zvxf libgeotiff-1.2.5.tar.gz cd libgeotiff-1.2.5 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local Note: I don't compile or install this, so I must have realized I didn't need to do these steps. Xastir reports I have GeoTiff, so I must have installed this some other way. 7. Install Xastir from cvs with configure flags (http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Notes:CVS) 7a. cd ~/src/ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir login cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xastir co xastir cd xastir/ ./bootstrap.sh ./configure --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/include/db45 --with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/lib/db45 make sudo make install-strip xastir About Xastir shows: Libraries used: ImageMagick libProj GeoTiff GDAL/OGR ShapeLib PCRE Dbfawk map_caching rtree libcurl So far I have only used the online Tigermaps. I still need to transfer and test my Tiger shapefiles onto my MacBook (hopefully they render--they should with this install, right?) I have the iPhone Developer SDK, so I think I got the required X11 stuff from there (I didn't do anything special before installing xastir). For this install I pieced together information for a few of the Xastir Wiki pages and other sources (noted above). I'd like to consolidate this into one wiki page, but I haven't had a chance yet. It would be helpful if someone could confirm this process works before I throw it in the wiki--installation on my system is probably not a good test because I already had a few dependencies. Anyway, this is what worked for me. I hope someone can find some use in this. Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
