[Xastir] Xastir on OSX success!

[Mike Fenske]

There has been lots of discussion recently about getting Xastir to run on OS-X. As a new Mac user, I thought I would give it a try.

This morning I was able to get Xastir compiled and running directly on OS-X. So far nothing fancy, just the following:

> xastir 1.9.5 has been configured to use the following
> options and external libraries:
> 
> MINIMUM OPTIONS:
>   ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes (internal)
> 
> RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
> -n   GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : 
> no
>   pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : no
>   dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : no
>   rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
>   map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : no
>   internet map retrieval ................. : yes (libcurl)
> 
> FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
>   AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : no
>   libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
>   GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
>   Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : no
>   GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : no
>   GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : no
> 
> xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
> Type 'make' to build Xastir (Use 'gmake' instead on some systems).
> mikes-imac:xastir mike$ 

Here's what I did:

- Install xcode tools & X11 from Mac OS-X disk.
- Download & install OpenMotif (leopard version) from here:
	http://www.ist-inc.com/DOWNLOADS/motif_download.html
- Use cvs to get the latest Xastir source.

Then, its just the usual ./configure, make & sudo make install-strip

Xastir installed in /usr/local/bin and it seems to run fine.

I do have fink installed, but I'm not sure if it is needed. I guess I should un-install it and see if Xastir still compiles/runs.

Next is to get pcre and dbfawk included.

Mike Fenske
VE7MKF