Frank, Here are my answers to some of your questions from the last couple of emails. Please note that I do not currently have a Mac or easy access to one so my answers are from memory and notes so it is hard for me to verify anything. I recently completed installs on 2 different 10.4 machines (both PPC Power books with ATI graphics).
> Has anyone successfully installed gazebo on Mac OS X WITHOUT this > script? If so, please let us know how ... I did not use that script. According to my notes (before I got gdk2 running) the only packages I needed to install from fink (all dependencies were handled) in order to get a running gazebo install were: fink selfupdate install: libxml2 glut automake1.9 pkgconfig proj With this list pixbuf was not recognized but gazebo ran without ground textures. > As indicated, lib3ds is appearently not available - do I need it for > anything? If so, please post your workarounds. lib3ds is only required if you would like 3ds (3d studio max) skins to be displayed over the more simplistic shaped bodies. See carchassis.world, the jeep screenshots on the website are this skinned model. > I currently have wxPython 2.8 installed, using a dmg package from [1]. > Strangely, the OSX package installer always reports that "there were > errors during the installation " This is the wxPython version that worked for me as well, IIRC I also saw the installation errors and suffered no ill effects from them. I mentioned needing a different wxPython version for one of the two systems. Here are some details. The first system ran fine with (please ignore mangled file names I'm trying to get the pertinent info from notes and memory) wxPython2.8 mac10.4 unicode.dmg and the second system ran fine with wxPython2.6 mac10.4 ansi.dmg (I do not know if the unicode to ansi made any difference I was trying for as large a change as i could get). The errors that caused me to try this were displayed in the Python status window (I do not remember what they were). Gazebo did not crash but nothing was displayed. I did not try any of the Python demos. I did have a problem with the downloaded 2.8 images (2.6 also?), some error about Daysinyear. The file (This path is incomplete) site-pkg.../wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wxPython/_misc.py needed Daysinyear replaced with DaysInYear. This might help some wxPython issues. > > Also instead of setting: > > DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH > > > > try setting DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH instead (This was required for > > things like pixbuf to be recognized). > > DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/binder/PlayerStage/lib > > This did not seem to be necessary for configure to complete with no but > 2 remaining and expected warnings (about player and lib3ds missing). > Hmm, does it help with the remaining "make install"-problems? Setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH was causing some external libraries to stop working. According to my notes "installing gtk+2 breaks wxPython" I believe that this was later tracked down to the issue noted above. IE I had gazebo working without ground textures until I installed gtk2 and then gazebo would crash. > the fact that I have to disable gzbuilder are not > satisfying. You will need gdal whether it is available from fink or has to be installed by hand I do not know, this was not a requirement of mine. > Could this crash be due to the example.world file? (I have not > modified it) ? example.world is actually a fairly complex world you might start by trying simplesolids.world > There seem to be several locations with OpenGL header files, e.g. in > sw/include, in /usr/X11R6/include, in > /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/, > /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u/usr/X11R6/include, etc ... > > - Which "version" of OpenGL is gazebo trying to use? How do I find out? > How could I change that? Do I need them all? Could they cause problems? I did not need to alter any OpenGL settings or parameters. Please note that while I was able to get everything running there was some weirdness with the control windows not being able to be moved from the upper left corner. The GUI cam window and the main gazebo simulation window could be moved but the interface control windows got stacked in the upper left corner. Just letting you know what I saw. Hope something in here helps. Sawyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Playerstage-gazebo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/playerstage-gazebo
