[Gretl-users] gretl on OS X: alternative GTK framework

After a long correspondence with a user who saw gretl crashing on start-up on OS X Lion, it became apparent that the GTK (2.14.3) framework we've been using (built by the R guys) may be problematic on Lion. When he tried with a different GTK version, gretl ran OK. The alternative build he tried at my suggestion was another from the R guys, namely GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg. This is more or less a drop-in replacement for the version we've been using, but it requires a little hackery to get gretl working with it, and in my experience on OS X 10.6.8 the font-handling is buggy. So... I've now built a new GTK+.framework myself, on 10.6.8. This one should be a direct drop-in replacement for the framework we've been using up till now -- on intel macs running OS X 10.6 or higher. And the font handling should be OK. I'd be grateful if people could test this build. To give it a try, do the following (but please read to the end first!): 1) Download http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/GTK+.framework.dmg.gz and double-click to unzip it. (You can then delete the .gz file.) 2) Move your existing GTK+.framework out of the way: in a terminal, do sudo mv /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework \ /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework.old 3) Double-click the new dmg file to mount it, then open the image in the Finder. Drag the GTK+.framework folder onto the Frameworks folder to install. Now check that gretl runs OK. Although it's not essential, you may want to use the current gretl snapshot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/gretl-intel.dmg.gz/... Since the problem that started all this was on Lion, I'm particularly interested to see if gretl works there with this new GTK build, but I'm also interested in results on 10.6. Note: at present this is a single-arch build, only i386. If you're running GTK apps other than gretl, and some of them are 64-bit, this framework will NOT support them. I can add x86_64 if need be. If you try the new framework and then want to restore the old one: # delete the new one sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework # restore the old sudo mv /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework.old \ /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework Allin Cottrell