[Radiance-general] X11 support on OSX 10.11?! (?!(?!))

[Greg Ward]

Hi Rob,

Looks like an issue with the way #define's are handled in devtable.c:

#if !defined(HAS_X11) && !defined(HAS_QT) && !defined(WIN_RVIEW)
/* weird logic ... */
#define HAS_X11
#endif

If you compile with -DHAS_QT, then you need to add -DHAS_X11 if you want that driver to compile as well.  I'm not sure why it was set up this way, as I wasn't really involved with the changes supporting QT.

Cheers,
-Greg

> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
> Date: December 8, 2016 10:05:56 AM PST
> 
> It is. It's running, and is mapped to DISPLAY, as I mentioned below. What I've noticed is that CMake's x11 variables are all empty, probably because I initially configured/built Radiance before I'd installed X11 on this system here. So I'm ASSuming my rvu here was compiled without x11 driver support. Stay tuned...
> 
> 
> From: Stephen Wasilewski <stephen at coolshadow.com<mailto:stephen at coolshadow.com>>
> Reply-To: Radiance discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org<mailto:radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM
> To: Radiance discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org<mailto:radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] X11 support on OSX 10.11?! (?!(?!))
> 
> This may be too simple to mention, but since I've done this to myself before...
> 
> Is Xquartz running?
> 
> Stephen Wasilewski
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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Guglielmetti, Robert <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov<mailto:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>> wrote:
> Hey there, Radiance people. I'm setting up my work computer again, having just re-imaged it to MacOSX 10.11 (yes, 10.12 is (has been) around; don't ask). Built Radiance from source, all is well. Rvu works fine with the Qt driver. Realized I hadn't installed x11 yet. Installed x11 (xquartz), but my installation is now defaulting to the Qt driver for rvu output. Problem is, even forcing it to use x11 is failing with the dreaded "rvu: fatal - cannot start device "x11"" error. Look:
> 
> $ rvu frozen_octree.oct
> (this works, loading the Qt-based rvu)
> 
> $ rvu -o qt frozen_octree.oct
> (this works, as above)
> 
> But...
> 
> $ rvu -o x11 frozen_octree.oct
> rvu: x11: not found
> rvu: fatal - cannot start device "x11"
> 
> The x11 device is in fact running and mapped to $DISPLAY. Look:
> 
> echo $DISPLAY
> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.2YPu12VOpL/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
> 
> So, WTF? Anyone?
> 
> - Rob