Hi David
This is *exactly* what I did when implementing iMosflm’s double-clickable icons
for Mac, Windows (“proper” Windows, not WSL, CygWin or MSYS) and Linux, many
years ago…
Since MacOS is based on (may well actually be, I can’t remember…) BSD UNIX,
loads of shell things (nearly but not
Dear Kay, Graeme and David,
Thank you very much for your reply and help! XDSwiki is always the first
reference that I will go to whenever having related questions. Since I am
really not a programming person, it was not that straightforward for me to
figure out how things work as it should be.
I am not familiar with Macs, but on Linux the first problem could be easily
solved by having the desktop shortcut call a brief shell script rather than the
executable. The script would first set up the environment properly, then call
the executable.
Dear Zhen Gong,
Installation of XDS and associated programs is documented in the "Installation"
article in XDSwiki.
If I google "XDSwiki installation article", it is the first hit.
Your PATH is probably different when you double-click XDSGUI to start it,
compared to what it is on the command
Dear all,
I have encountered this problem in xdsgui: you have to install generate_XDS.INP
in your path. Generate_XDS.INP works fine in command line but not in the GUI. I
saw the same question was raised up by another user previously on CCP4bb but I
was not able to see Key's reply any more.
