[R-SIG-Mac] rgl configure error: "missing required library GL"

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/07/2012 2:33 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 19:31 , Davor Cubranic wrote:
>
> > On 2012-07-17, at 10:05 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >
> >> The aglrgl.so library is built from osxgui.mm and osxlib.cpp.  I'd been assuming the problem was an API change in recent OSX 64 bit, but maybe it's a problem with the makefiles or the compiler.  If you can suggest any fixes for this, I'd appreciate it.  (The newest OSX that I have is 10.6.8.)
> >
> > BTW, I see osxgui.o being of wrong architecture during an install on 10.6.8 as well...
> >
> > But I think this is caused by object files being left in the tar.gz:
> >
> > $ tar xzf rgl_0.92.880.tar.gz
> > $ find rgl -name \*.o |xargs file
> > rgl/src/AGL/x11gui.o: Mach-O object i386
> > rgl/src/AGL/x11lib.o: Mach-O object i386
> > rgl/src/osx/osxgui.o: Mach-O object i386
> > rgl/src/osx/osxlib.o: Mach-O object i386
> >
> > Davor
>
> Yay, nice catch!
>
> This allows me to build an rgl that loads in R.app:
>
> tar xvfz rgl_0.92.880.tar.gz
> rm `find rgl -name \*.o`
> R64 CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--with-gl-libs=/usr/X11/lib rgl
>
> I still have some issues with the 32 bit version, but I believe those are unrelated. (MacPorts seems to be interfering....)
>

Yes, nice catch indeed.   If you get the tarball from R-forge, you'll 
get a slightly newer version, and no *.o files included. I'll send that 
one to CRAN.

Duncan Murdoch