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20050225: NPROGS on MacOS-X platform

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  • Subject: 20050225: NPROGS on MacOS-X platform
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:14:42 -0600
Steve,

Russ was able to let me test out Max OS 10.4.1 (Tiger plus an update,
which provides Darwin 8.1.0) on his laptop, and I can get a message queue to 
work now, and have been able to build openmotif so I will be able to put 
together 
a test binary distribution to kick the tires on. Our OSX workstation is still 
running 
Panther, so development is limited to when Russ' laptop is on the network here.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>
>Antti,
>
>MacOSX is not a platform that I support at this time for GEMPAK
>due to the limitation of the OS support for the SYSV message queues.
>
>The package will build using open motif and g77/gcc ( I tested using Fink's
>distributions). Decoders and GUIs will run, while command line programs that
>use message queue's build will not. Developers environments for X11 and
>Motif are needed.
>
>At the time I tested, the Apple gcc/g77 had a version incompatibility with
>libg2c, which led me to use the Fink version.
>
>
>Steve Chiswell
>Unidata User Support
>
>
>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, A Pessi wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anybody have any experience in running NPROGS like nmap2, ntrans,
>> nsharp etc. on a MacOS platform?
>>
>> How about generally using Mac as a Visualization Lab platform for
>> Unidata software?
>>
>> Any comments welcome!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antti
>>
>> --
>> ******************************
>> Antti Pessi
>> University of Hawaii
>> Department of Meteorology
>> 2525 Correa Road, HIG367
>> Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
>> tel: (808) 956-4593
>> fax: (808) 956-2877
>> ******************************
>>
>
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