macos catalina does not have native x11 support (actually it's apparently
been a long time since macos has had native x11). apparently Xquartz can
be downloaded and installed to add x11 support. in catalina trying to run
an app that requires x11 is supposed to generate a prompt to get Xquartz.
but trying to build an app that wants x11, the needed libraries are not
found and so the functions that need x11 don't get built
regards
Jeff H. Derby
Senior Technical Staff Member
Next Generation Computing
IBM Research
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1. Re: Doubt about plotting on MAC OS X Catalina (Peter Teeson)
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:48:22 -0500
From: Peter Teeson <peter.tee...@me.com>
To: "Dr. Jürgen Sauermann" <m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de>
Cc: Antonio Juan <anqu...@gmail.com>, bug-apl@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doubt about plotting on MAC OS X Catalina
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Hi:
The Macintosh operating system used to be called OS X
Then it was renamed macOS. That was around the time Apple created a spin
off iOS for their mobile devices.
So these days people refer to the hardware as Macs (both desktop and
laptop)
And iPhone, iPad, iWatch for their mobile devices.
What make of Mac do you have? What version of macOS?
If you have questions I will try to help.
Peter
> On Nov 27, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
<m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> there is a very nice description of how to install GNU APL on Macintosh
written
> by Peter Teeson. You can find in in the HOWTOs directory.
>
> I don't know if Macintosh uses OSX, but Peters document is anyhow
worthwhile reading.
>
> BTW I have updated the ⎕PLOT error message to be more specific as to
which library is missing.
>
> Best Rgeards,
> Jürgen Sauermann
>
>
> On 11/27/19 12:32 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:
>> Thanks; I need to completely read the GNU-APL DOC, sorry about that
>>
>> You are right the problem is with the libxcb.
>>
>> ⎕plot 1 2 3 4 5
>> SYNTAX ERROR+
>> ⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5
>> ^
>> )MORE
>> ⎕PLOT is not available because either no libxcb library was found on
this
>> system when GNU APL was compiled, or because it was disabled in
./configure.
>>
>> Exist a tutorials for building gnu-apl in OSX
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>>
>> Toni
>>
>>> El 26 nov 2019, a las 17:27, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
<m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de <mailto:m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de>>
escribió:
>>>
>>> Hi Toni,
>>>
>>> the + character after SYNTAX ERROR (or any other APL error) indicates
that there
>>> is more information available regarding that error. The additional
information
>>> can be displayed with command )MORE.
>>>
>>> I suspect that in this particular case libraries needed for plotting
(essentially libX11.so,
>>> libxcb.so, and libX11-xcb.so) were missing on the platform where GNU
APL was compiled
>>> (i.e. your own machine if you compiled from source or the build
machine of a package if
>>> you installed a binary package).
>>>
>>> For ⎕PLOT to work, you may need to compile the interpreter from
source with the required
>>> X libraries installed beforehand.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Jürgen Sauermann
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/26/19 2:27 PM, Antonio Juan wrote:
>>>> Thanks for this awesome software. I have installed gnu plot 1.8 from
brew package. It works well, and good integration with emacs. So it is a
good environment for learning APL.
>>>>
>>>> The only think is that when I try to plot I always get the following
error:
>>>>
>>>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
>>>> SYNTAX ERROR+
>>>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3
>>>> ^
>>>>
>>>> I do not see anywhere, if is needed to load a workspace, or the
needed for some environment configuration during installation. So really I
do not know how to proceed.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time
>>>>
>>>> Toni
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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