[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance for Mac OS X

Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:25:45 -0700

Hi Galen,

I just uploaded a new copy of the Radiance binaries for Mac OS X v10.2 
(Jaguar), since the old 10.1 binaries don't seem to work on the new 
version of the operating system.  There are no "Dummy" pages for 
Radiance, and no dummies as far as I know who can do anything with the 
software...  We really should have some quick introduction somewhere, I 
suppose.  Right now, the README file that comes with the main 
distribution is about all we have, and that's probably out of date.

Anyway, to install Radiance on your system, just grab the main 
distribution from the website Download link 
(http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance of course), then download the MacOS X 
binaries from the same place.  Copy the binaries to /usr/local/bin or 
someplace like that, and the libraries (ray/lib in the main 
distribution) to /usr/local/lib/ray.  This is explained on the download 
page as well.

Unfortunately, there is a small snag in this procedure, which is that 
it fails to install certain critical library files, such as 
"rayinit.cal", which are normally copied as part of the makeall build 
process.  Therefore, it's often best to run "makeall install" anyway on 
your system, to make sure you get everything, in which case the 
binaries aren't really needed, unless of course you don't have the 
developer tools that come free with Mac OS X installed on your system.

To manually copy all the library files, just execute the following 
commands after you've unpacked the ray directory:

% cd ray
% cp -rp lib /usr/local/lib/ray
% cp -p src/*.cal /usr/local/lib/ray

That should do it!
-Greg

> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 10:54:56 -0600
> From: Galen Burrell <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Radiance-general] Radiance for Mac OS X
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> I see there is a Radiance binary compilation for Mac OS X.  I'm only
> slightly familiar with the BSD system that  OSX is based on, and could
> really use some help getting started.
>
> Is there an "Installing Radiance on Mac OSX For Dummies" web page out 
> there
> somewhere?
> Once I get it installed, I'm fine, as I've used Radiance for 
> DOS/Windows and
> linux before.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Galen Burrell
> Boulder, CO