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Re: IDL on Mac Funning Yosemite? [message #89465 is a reply to message #89464] Sun, 19 October 2014 11:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
granttremblay is currently offline  granttremblay
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this solution worked perfectly for me! Thank you!


On Sunday, October 19, 2014 12:16:26 AM UTC-4, jradav...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was able to get it working using the info here, and playing around with it a bit. Here's the error I was getting:
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> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
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> Referenced from: /Applications/itt/idl/bin/bin.darwin.x86_64/libidl.7.1.dylib
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> Reason: image not found
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> Trace/BPT trap: 5
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> It looks like Yosemite no longer has /usr/X11, instead it has /opt/X11.So my first solution was to create a symbolic link:
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> sudo ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11
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> Then it gave me another error:
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> dyld: Symbol not found: _inflateReset2
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> Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/libPng.dylib
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> Expected in: /Applications/itt/idl/bin/bin.darwin.x86_64/libz.1.dylib
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> in /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/libPng.dylib
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> Trace/BPT trap: 5
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> and so I deleted this file (which is actually a sym link i think):
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> /Applications/itt/idl/bin/bin.darwin.x86_64/libz.1.dylib
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> and now we are golden, it works great!
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> On Friday, October 17, 2014 9:11:53 PM UTC-7, David Fanning wrote:
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>> I got an e-mail today from someone who claims he can't get either IDL
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>> 7.1 or IDL 8.2 to run on the Yosemite version of OS X. Is there any
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>> truth to this? Is there a trick to installing IDL on this OS?
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>> This person claims the problem is with libPNG. Can anyone fill me in on
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>> what he is talking about. :-(
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>> Thanks,
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>> David
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>> --
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>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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>> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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