Re: [Gretl-users] Downloading, building and installing -gretl- 1.10.2 on Kubuntu Linux 15.04
On 22 Sep 2015, at 15:04, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:34, Clive Nicholas <clivelists(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
>> I've just uploaded a video which shows you all the steps of downloading,
building and installing the latest version of -gretl- on my YouTube page. Watch it at:
>> https://youtu.be/P58r2u4zFrc
>> Warning: it's nearly 45 minutes long, but let me know what you think! :)
>
> It would be nice if there was complete description of what is needed to build Gretl
quartz on OS X. Inspecting the package contents and doing some "otool -L …"
magic building gretl-quartz seems to be quite involved.
I could have a go at that. Would it be more useful to have an account of building gretl
as an App bundle (with all needed libraries bundled in), or just as an "ordinary
program"? Also, when considering the various third-party libraries that are needed,
do you have any thoughts on Macports vs Homebrew vs plain old do-it-yourself?
I would describe how to build the complete App bundle and make the package for
distribution; both the Quartz version and the X11 version.
I assume you are building the whole thing in a do-it-yourself way and using clang (and
gfortran? if yes which one?).
It’s just nice to have an account for the “just in case” scenario.
I have never used/use MacPorts or Homebrew.
I always seem to read about problems and issues and they are not “Mac-ish”.
So I keep away from these.
I don’t know if anyone is using Macports or Homebrew.
Everything needed is then in the bundle and if I or someone else needs the command line
version of gretl or gnuplot
making a script to access those two wouldn’t be too difficult.
I’m certainly going to try making two scripts for accessing gretlcli and gnuplot from a
Terminal.
I would be able to get rid of your GTK+ framework and the Aquaterm.framework.
I appreciate your hard work in building a Quartz version of Gretl and a WXT terminal for
gnuplot.
The Quartz version is much nicer than an X-windows version.
I don’t use them daily; only once in a while. Very nice to have (both of them).
Berend