[xcrysden] Xcrysden / Macosx 10.9

[Passerone, Daniele]

Dear Tone, Thank you very much!

However, I am very old ;-)  and I left linux for mac exactly because my
main activity and passion is not anymore digging libraries and
dependenciesŠ so I am more or less dependent on ³macports"

So I was really sad when I discovered that macports stops at Mesa 8, andŠ

*configured Mesa 10, and got "Direct rendering requires libdrm >= 2.4.38²
*configured libdrm, and got ³no clock_gettime available²

*then configured Mesa 9, and got "failed to find required module libxml2²
*installed py27-libxml2 , no effect.

As I said, I am old, and just want to check whether my beloved Diselenide
model makes sense for my next DFT+U calculationŠ

Best,
Daniele

On 02/09/14 17:07, "Tone Kokalj" <tone.kokalj at ijs.si> wrote:

>On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 21:20 +0000, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
>> 
>> Dear developers,
>> As far as I know, the problem by executing a successfully compiled
>> xcrysden on Mavericks is still not solved.
>> The solution of installing mesa 7.0.3 is not so easy, and the port
>> proposed here:
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41320
>> 
>> 
>> has not been approved by macports, being 7.0 of mesa too obsolete.
>
>Note that the old 7.x version of Mesa is not mandatory and xcrysden can
>be also compiled/linked against newer versions of Mesa! However, for
>macosx there have been reports that xcrysden does not work with some 8.x
>versions of Mesa; I do not know whether it works or not with the newer
>9.x and 10.x versions of Mesa.
>
>The reason that xcrysden tries automatically to download and compile
>Mesa-7.0.3 (if instructed to do so) is that according to my experience
>the older 7.x version compiles much easier than the newer versions and
>it has less dependencies (e.g, on dri, drm, x11proto, llvm, etc...).
>
>I've just tried to compile xcrysden on x86_64-linux with the new
>Mesa-10.2.6 and it works (note that starting from Mesa-9.x the GLU
>library is separated from Mesa and should be installed and compiled
>separately).
>
>Regards,
>
>-- 
>Anton Kokalj
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