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Has anyone had any luck getting xephem to run on a MAC that is running OS X Lion?

If so, could you give me some hints please?

Thanks

--Dave

On 7/23/11 5:52 AM +0900, David F. Reed wrote:

Has anyone had any luck getting xephem to run on a MAC that is running
OS X Lion?

If so, could you give me some hints please?

Check in System Profiler -> Software -> Applications whether your XEphem version is a PPC binary. If it is, it won't run on Lion, period, because Apple removed the Rosetta emulation. I've got 3.6.3 Commercial here, and it's 100% PPC.

If your version is a Universal or Intel binary, then the problem is something else and somebody else will have to help.

Cheers,

trane
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On 07/22/2011 07:07 PM, Trane Francks wrote:

On 7/23/11 5:52 AM +0900, David F. Reed wrote:

Has anyone had any luck getting xephem to run on a MAC that is running
OS X Lion?

If so, could you give me some hints please?

Check in System Profiler -> Software -> Applications whether your XEphem
version is a PPC binary. If it is, it won't run on Lion, period, because
Apple removed the Rosetta emulation. I've got 3.6.3 Commercial here, and
it's 100% PPC.

If your version is a Universal or Intel binary, then the problem is
something else and somebody else will have to help.

Cheers,

trane

It should be possible to compile XEphem from source if you've installed X11 and the needed development tools.

Bud

I'm happy (and relieved) to report that the commercial tarballs (and more to the point for Mac users the .dmg files there-in) work fine on my new Macbook Air running Lion. I just went through the exercise like any user would and there were no glitches.

As for compiling the free version from source, well that's not supported so you're on your own as usual. But I will say that after installing Xcode, the build for 3.7.5-RC14 was pretty routine also. The only hassle was adding -m32 to all the Makefiles to force building a 32 bit version so I could use the libXm/osx/libXm.a in the tarball. If you want to make a 64 bit version, you'll need to get the Motif sources from openmotif.org and build a 64 bit version of that lib, but I can tell you that is a whole 'nother ball game.



Elwood