Although the installation program says "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">No special installation is required, just unpack these archives and run the program"</span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the problem is likely due to one of the dependencies:<br></span><div><br></div><div>"</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p>
Library requirements of using my engine on Mac OS X:</p><ul><li><p>For OpenGL programs, <b>X11</b> (may be found on Mac OS X install CD).</p><p>And you should run my programs from within X11 xterm, to use your display. Or you will have to specify your X display by command-line option explicitly, like <tt>--display=:0</tt></p>
<p>This requirement will be removed if at some time I'll implement GLWindow unit using some native Mac OS X libraries. Contributions are most welcome if you're experienced with programming under Mac OS X !</p></li>
<li><p><b>libpng</b> (may be installed by <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">fink</a>), if you want to be able to open any images/textures etc. stored in PNG images.</p></li><li><p>When GLWindow uses GTK backend (view3dscene compiled by default script does use GTK, "The Castle" compiled by default script doesn't use GTK): <b>GTK and GtkGLExt</b> are required. May be installed by <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">fink</a> (look for packages <tt>gtk+2</tt>, <tt>gtkglext1</tt>).</p>
<p><i>Note:</i> Binary <tt>gtk+2</tt> packages in fink may be too old. If you get errors on the console like</p><pre> dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /xxx/view3dscene
Reason: Incompatible library version: view3dscene requires version 601.0.0 or later, but libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib provides version 401.0.0
</pre><p>then try installing gtk from source packages, they have newer version (or bug fink to update binary packages more often :) ). It is <i>not</i> necessary to use any fink packages from unstable branch !</p></li><li>
<p><b>OpenAL</b> for game sound (may be downloaded from Creative, see download links from <a href="http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/AllItems.aspx">openal.org downloads</a>, newer Mac OS X has this pre-installed ?) along with <b>vorbisfile</b> (may be installed by <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">fink</a>).</p>
</li></ul><p>For libs installed by fink, you may have to add them to your libs path by command like</p><pre> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
</pre>before executing programs. (you can add this to your <tt>.bashrc</tt> or similar file for comfort).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">"<hr>
<div class="page_footer"></div></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/7 chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragonmagi@gmail.com">dragonmagi@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The Mac installation dies on run. It's not the usual dmg, just an exe in a tarball.<div><br></div><div>chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/7 Don Brutzman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.navy.mil" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.navy.mil</a>></span><div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">of potential interest, test reports welcome.<br>
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Lindberg, Brett (MAJ) wrote:<br>
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FYI: I found another X3D/VRML viewer (you can add it in X3d-edit as an additional viewer)<br>
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<a href="http://vrmlengine.sourceforge.net/view3dscene.php" target="_blank">http://vrmlengine.sourceforge.net/view3dscene.php</a><br>
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thanks Brett!<br>
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all the best, Don<br>
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