[R-SIG-Mac] rgl, Leopard, 64 bit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

rgl attempts on OS X to build both X11 and 'Carbon' versions.  You can 
inhibit the latter by

R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--disable-carbon'  .../rgl_0.81.tar.gz

The X11 version does work -- had you not tried that?

A native Mac OS X version will be a lot more work, so to encourage 
people you will need to explain what is not enough in the X11 version.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Matthew Cohen wrote:
>
>> Looking through the archives, I see that the developers of rgl don't have 
>> access to a 64 bit Mac, and are waiting for someone else to take the 
>> initiative and make an appropriate patch.  Unfortunately, I think this is 
>> beyond my abilities.  Has anyone been able to get it to work?
>
> I now have a 64-bit Mac (10.5.6), and probably the abilities. If you could 
> collect together the relevant posts, I will endeavour to take a look (unless 
> Simon has already got there).  Please post a follow-up posting for future 
> reference, and include the rgl maintainers (who I suspect do not read 
> R-sig-mac).
>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>
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> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595