[GRASS-dev] Re: OS X Lion: wxpython 2.9

[Michael Barton]

William,

Are the missing API's a problem for GRASS?

Can you get a GRASS/terminal/wxGUI terminal error message? The one from Apple is less helpful. But if that is the only one you have, can you send it? I wonder if it is a 64bit compilation issue?

Michael
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On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:25 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> This is now a real problem - wxpython 2.8.x series will not compile on OS X Lion.  Lion appears to have the remaining pure-Carbon bits removed (that wxpython 2.8 needs).  I think it's really only a problem for OpenGL - that's where I get compile errors in wxPython, the GUI seems to run with a wxPython compiled on earlier system versions (and I don't run into OpenGL because wxnviz is not enabled for GRASS 6.4).
> 
> The 2.9 dev series has a cocoa option now, but 2.9 is in development.  Nice bonus: it's now finally 64bit.  But there are some issues yet to work out.  A couple APIs were deprecated in OSX 10.6 and removed in 10.7, and so far no definite solution is in the wxPython code.
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> The only options then are (to be able to use wx 2.9 cocoa where OpenGL is usable)
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> - to compile for the 10.6 SDK, thus the system Python 2.6
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> - to compile for the 10.6 SDK with python.org (or other) Python 2.7 (if python 2.7 is wanted)
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> There is a downloadable wxpython 2.9 cocoa from wxpython.org, that is built for 64bit python 2.7 on OSX 10.5+, but the GUI crashes on startup with this.  I can't tell if it's a GRASS problem, I can copy the crash report to list if anyone's interested (it's a long stack trace), or start a bug report, but I don't have time to poke around with it much.
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