[Xastir] Mac newbie alert!

[Kurt Freiberger]

On 5/30/08 10:54 AM, "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Kurt Freiberger wrote:
> 
>> No maps.  The terminal window complains about not having ImageMagick
>> installed.
>> *** Skipping 
>> '/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/terraserver-reflectivity.geo',
>> IMAGESIZE tag missing or incorrect. ***
>> Perhaps no XPM/ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library support is installed?
>> 
>> Ports list says it is installed.
> 
> Does it say that imagemagick-devel package (or similar name) is
> installed?

Doesn't seem to be a -devel variant.

> What does Help->About say in Xastir WRT the installed libraries?
> You compiled Xastir from scratch, or installed a pre-built binary
> for OSX?

Doesn't mention IM.  Does have geotiff, which is odd, since I couldn't
compile it.  I'll let sleeping libraries lie.  I installed Xastir from
source, of course.
 
> If you can't get IM going, you might give
> GraphicsMagick/GraphicsMagick-devel a try instead.

Macports tries to fetch it, but fails to find a copy.  I'll probably try
when I get home.  I'm at a BoD meeting, and the wireless is rather odd in
its capabilities.
 
> 
> 
>> In trying to install geotiff, it says:
>> configure: error: You will need to substantially rewrite libxtiff to
>> build libgeotiff without libtiff
>> 
>> Port list says tiff is installed.
> 
> Do you _need_ topo maps or are you just trying to get all the no's
> to yes's in the summary?
> 
> You may need to carefully read the INSTALL document that comes with
> the Xastir sources to figure out the geotiff stuff.  You'll need
> libtiff and proj (proj4) installed before you compile libgeotiff,
> plus the version of libgeotiff must have the right libtiff to work
> with.  Details are in the INSTALL file.
> 
> 
>> Any suggestions besides "load linux"??
> 
> Bad idea.  OSX is Unix, just as good as Linux.