[rkward-users] problem installing on Mac

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Roel Verberne wrote:
> [...]
> So, I haven't given up yet, would really like to get this to work, I'm
> just not familiar with most of this though..
> 
> Hope you can help me a bit more, regards,

I think it's about time to call in the experts: I'm CCing this to the KDE-mac 
mailing list. A short summary of the problem for those on the list:

*In theory* RKWard should compile and run on the Mac, but as none of the 
developers owns a Mac, we have serious problems figuring out accurate 
installation instructions. We provide guesswork instructions at 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=RKWard_on_Mac . 
Now a user is trying to get things to work, but we can't even get the 
configuration (i.e. cmake) to complete. I tried to support this effort as much 
as I could, but for me it's all just guesswork, and so far all my guesses 
turned out to be wrong. So I'd really appreciate help on this.

Some background information:
- RKWard is based on KDE4, but is not developed in KDE's SVN (see the above 
wiki page)
- Our sources contain some X11-specific code, that is not yet ported to the 
Mac. Thus I suppose we will need to use an x11-flavored KDE-installation. As 
far as I can see, macports does not provide that, but fink does.
- Successful compilation will also require an installation of R (http://www.r-
project.org). I do fear that the cmake-code checking for R may also need 
adjustments, but at the moment we do not even get to this point.

If you are interested to read about our failed efforts so far, see this mail-
thread: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4BE191E3.30603%40unil.ch&forum_name=rkward-
users . But in short, the question is: Could you please tell us what we need 
to correct in our instructions?

Thanks!
Thomas

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