I installed the gretl.app from the dmg file provided via the gretl
website. Double clicking on the application icon fails to initiate
X11 and generates an error message that gretl requires X11 to
function. Hence, I started X11 separately and then double clicked on
gretl. This generates the error message "Application gretl_x11 quit
unexpectedly". The report contains the following error message
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Users/allin/misc/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gretl_x11
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib:
mach-o, but wrong architecture
so that there is a mismatch of the libfftw3.3 library. I assume that
the reference to "wrong architecture" means that the library is not a
universal binary (I am experimenting on an Intel Mac Mini).
I have updated my system to include the latest fixes from Apple, so
that may include Version 10.5.1. As I explained I was not able to
find how to execute ./gretl because I cannot get to the right
location in xterm. In any case, the error message suggests that the
outcome would not be any different.
Regards
Gordon Hughes
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:22:31 +0100
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
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Gordon Hughes schrieb:
> This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of
> OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl does
> not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor am I
> able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme pdf file
> because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... specified. I was
> able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 (Tiger) of OS-X without
> any significant difficulty.
With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking,
either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the
appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work for
you or what happened?
>
> From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of
> unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so
> that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work
> with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not
> important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a
> Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for
> those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned
> upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with a
> version of X11 that functions properly.
10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the
pre-release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described
on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the other
fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a
pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.)
But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well remain
some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be any
fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical problems
notwithstanding).
thanks,
sven