On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Dominic Balestrieri wrote:
Although there is an extremely helpful and informative page
online regarding the installation of Gretl on a Mac, Gretl
does not want to work on my system as well as the Apple
products of a few of my classmates. [...]
For gretl on a current Mac, please:
1. Ensure you have gretl 1.9.7 for intel or the current
mac-intel snapshot from
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html
2. Download the GTK framework from this (and ONLY this) link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/osx/GTK+.framework.dmg/download
3. Delete entirely /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework , so as
to ensure that no stale/incompatible GTK files are messing
things up.
4. Install the correct GTK framework from the dmg file (see
point 2).
5. In a terminal, execute
rm -f ~/.gretl2rc
6. Start gretl. It may take a while to start on the first
invocation as the font cache is built, but should start
quickly thereafter.
Gretl 1.9.7 with the correct GTK version is known to work on
Lion, but in the event it won't start on your system, please
open a terminal and do
cd /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin
./gretl
This should provide some additional info on what's wrong.
Allin Cottrell