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

[Matthew Cohen]

Thanks.  I was indeed trying to build a Carbon version.  I'd love to  
see it run natively -- it would surely look a lot better, and it seems  
to me that pretty graphics are the whole point of this package -- but  
X11 works fine for me.  Sorry for the bother.

Matt

On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> 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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