Dependencies of my programs on Mac OS X

Library requirements of using my engine on Mac OS X:

For OpenGL programs, X11 (may be found on Mac OS X install CD).

And you should run my programs from within X11 xterm, to use your display. Or you will have to specify your X display by command-line option explicitly, like --display=:0

This requirement will be removed if at some time I'll implement GLWindow unit using some native Mac OS X libraries. Contributions are most welcome if you're experienced with programming under Mac OS X !
libpng (may be installed by fink), if you want to be able to open any images/textures etc. stored in PNG images.
When GLWindow uses GTK backend (view3dscene compiled by default script does use GTK, "The Castle" compiled by default script doesn't use GTK): GTK and GtkGLExt are required. May be installed by fink (look for packages gtk+2, gtkglext1).
Note: Binary gtk+2 packages in fink may be too old. If you get errors on the console like
```
  dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /xxx/view3dscene
  Reason: Incompatible library version: view3dscene requires version 601.0.0 or later, but libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib provides version 401.0.0
```
then try installing gtk from source packages, they have newer version (or bug fink to update binary packages more often :) ). It is not necessary to use any fink packages from unstable branch !
OpenAL for game sound (may be downloaded from Creative, see download links from openal.org downloads, newer Mac OS X has this pre-installed ?) along with vorbisfile (may be installed by fink).

For libs installed by fink, you may have to add them to your libs path by command like

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

before executing programs. (of course you can add this to your .bashrc file or whatever).

[back to main page]

Copyright Michalis Kamburelis. This page is considered part of documentation of my programs, and you are free to modify and further distribute it on terms of GNU General Public License.

Services for the vrmlengine project provided by

See also vrmlengine project page on SourceForge.