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OpenMotif on MacOS X

Submitted by RobArthan on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 12:03.

I have installed OpenMotif with some difficulty on MacOS X 10.6. I needed to download and install freetype2; I had to fiddle with CFLAGS to get the -I and -L options right and hack clients/uil/UilDefI.h to make it define YYSTYPE).

Is it intended to continue support for OpenMotif on MacOS X? If so, it would be nice if it built out of the box - although

Regards,

Rob.

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Sat, 09/05/2009 - 12:08#1

    

    

        RobArthan    

    
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I hit submit too soon! I

        
I hit submit too soon! I meant to say:


although I appreciate that not having freetype2 may be more of an Apple X11 issue (I didn't have to do this with earlier versions of MacOS X).



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  










  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 11:55#2

    

    

        Yuriy Syrota    

    
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RobArthan wrote:
I hit

        


RobArthan wrote:


I hit submit too soon! I meant to say:


although I appreciate that not having freetype2 may be more of an Apple X11 issue (I didn't have to do this with earlier versions of MacOS X).



Rob,


Open Motif, is a source code version of Motif®, available under a public license, the effect of which allows Open Motif to be distributed, royalty free, when the platform upon which it is shipped is Open Source. Since MacOS is a not an open source platform it is not target platform for OpenMotif.



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  










  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 15:22#3

    

    

        RobArthan    

    
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But the underlying Unix

        
But the underlying Unix operating system  is Free BSD and is open source.  As this was not considered a problem a few years ago, why has it become a problem now.



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  









  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Sun, 10/18/2009 - 13:11#4

    

    

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The Unix core of Mac OS X is

        
The Unix core of Mac OS X is Mach and is made available under the name Darwin as an opensource project.  When you run X11 on Darwin, you are running on opensource from top to bottom.



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  










  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Sun, 11/08/2009 - 14:48#5

    

    

        RobArthan    

    
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Thanks to mbalmer for the

        
Thanks to mbalmer for the extra confirmation. On the technical side, there are two bugs that were stopping Motif building on Mac OS X 10.6: bugzilla #1497 and #1479. You also need to set some environment variables. If you apply the patches (using the options -z ".org" for #1497) and do the following OpenMoti builds fine.


./configure  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include"

LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib make


Cheers,


Rob.



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  










  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Sat, 12/12/2009 - 12:45#6

    

    

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With the environment

        
With the environment variable change suggested by Rob Arthan (so that it can find the freetype2 headers) OpenMotif 2.3.2 built fine for me on OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I guess the bug fixes were incorporated into the 2.3.2 release?


Thanks.