Tablix On Mac OS X

If you have MacPorts installed, see MacPorts

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A self-contained package containing PVM3, Tablix and g-Tablix would be very nice. According to the number of free software projects that offer such packages (see Gimp.app, OpenOffice?.org Mac OS X port, etc.) that should not be too complicated.

See also [Platypus]

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See [libdldarwin] for a simple library that provides dlopen and other functions needed for loading modules on Mac OS X.

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This may also be useful: http://autopackage.org/docs/binreloc

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Tablix 0.2.3 and newer versions have been confirmed to run on an Apple Powerbook running Mac OS X 10.3.9. Follow these steps to compile from source and install:

libxml2 (version 2.6.20) has been installed into the home directory of an ordinary user. The configure command used was:

 ./configure --prefix=/Users?/tomaz/software

The directory "/Users?/tomaz/software/bin" was added to the default PATH (modified "~/.bash_profile").

pvm3 (version 3.4.5) distribution was extracted to "/Users?/tomaz/tablix/pvm3".

PVM_ROOT environment variable was set to "/Users?/tomaz/tablix/pvm3".

pvm3 was compiled with "make".

Following lines were added to "~/.bash_profile":

 export PVM_ROOT="$HOME/tablix/pvm3"
 PATH="$PVM_ROOT/lib:$HOME/software/bin:$PATH"

Tablix (version 0.2.3) was extracted to "/Users?/tomaz/tablix/tablix2-0.2.3"

The commands used to install Tablix were:

 ./configure --with-xml-prefix=$HOME/software --prefix=$HOME/software --enable-debug
 make
 make install

After installation, Tablix can be used as on any other system (enable ssh service in system preferences if you want to include this computer in a cluster)

tablix2_plot from 0.2.3 will not work because Mac OS X lacks the "tempfile" utility. Later versions use "mktemp" instead and work without problems.

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All libraries that Tablix 0.1 depends on (libxml2 and pvm3) are available on Mac OS X.

Tablix 0.1 fails to compile with the following link errors:

 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -O2 -g -g -O2   -o export_htmlcss.la -rpath /usr/local/lib/tablix -no-undefined -module -avoid-version export_htmlcss.lo  -ldl
 gcc  -o .libs/export_htmlcss.so -bundle  .libs/export_htmlcss.o  -ldl
 ld: Undefined symbols:
 _author
 _cmap
 _cmapnum
 ...

and so on (all external symbols are reported as undefined).

This issue is fixed in the CVS version of Tablix. Unfortunately there is still a problem with the default version of libxml installed on Mac OS X 10.3.6. ./configure script reports the following error:

 checking for libxml - version >= 2.4.3... *** libxml header files (version 2.5.4) do not match
 *** xml2-config (version 2.6.7)
 no