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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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.
>

I was referring to the native version alone. I guess I have  
misinterpreted the original question. I have a prototype of the native  
version that could be used in 64-bit if anyone is keen enough to clean  
up rgl... Either way IMHO the configure script should check whether  
the Carbon version can be built at all.

Cheers,
S


> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> 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
>>
>
> -- 
> 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
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