[GRASS-dev] nviz on mac

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 18, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:

> Thanks to William nviz is working now on my macintel, latest  
> grass6.3 compilation.
>
> On May 17, 2007, at 8:54 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> Add these symlinks:
>>
>> sudo ln -s libtcl8.4.dylib /usr/local/tcltk/lib/libtcl.dylib
>> sudo ln -s libtk8.4.dylib /usr/local/tcltk/lib/libtk.dylib
>

What he said.  Long explanation:

It appears that the standard TclTk build doesn't create those  
symlinks.  So, while you specify the correct dir and configure finds  
it, the linker doesn't and falls back to the system tcltk, which  
causes NVIZ to crash (older Aqua tcltk).

(I had partially fixed this on my Mac a while back and forgot about  
it, and it's been working for me.)

I added the sylink step to the TclTk build instructions in the OSX  
readme.  Hopefully this will take care of the mysterious OSX NVIZ  
problems many people have been having.

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