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Get pycam into Homebrew

Open njh opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

  • [ ] build homebrew Formula
  • [ ] get second person to test
  • [ ] submit to Homebrew
  • [ ] update pycam documentation for Mac

njh avatar Feb 17 '17 00:02 njh

Thought I was close to getting it working and then found I could get gtkgl to work:

$ pycam
Psyco is not available (performance will probably suffer slightly)
Enabled 4 parallel local processes
Fatal Python error: can't initialize module gtk.gtkgl
Abort trap: 6

It doesn't look like there has been any work on it for 7 year, so so not feeling optimistic about getting it to work on Mac:

  • https://github.com/GNOME/pygtkglext
  • https://projects.gnome.org/gtkglext/download.html#pygtkglext

njh avatar Feb 18 '17 12:02 njh

I think, the topic "pycam + Mac" was the one most frequently asked in the pycam forum on sourceforge. Back then it always seemed to take a lot of effort (but worked somehow). Given that this was some years ago, personally I would defer any thoughts about running pycam on Mac to the time after switching to another visualization software and maybe even after switching to gtk3 or something else.

sumpfralle avatar Feb 18 '17 15:02 sumpfralle

Yes, I think I am inclined to agree with you. Might take too much to fix time in the short-term 😕

njh avatar Feb 18 '17 22:02 njh

My draft Homebrew Formula (doesn't currently work): https://gist.github.com/njh/960050f42111fa66718fd76a3d7ce2dd

njh avatar Feb 20 '17 21:02 njh