Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on MacOSX

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 07:08:10 AM Busser, Jim wrote:
> On 2012-05-14, at 11:05 PM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > I keep getting asked if GNUmed runs on Mac OS. I always say sure but ...
> > 
> > Casual Mac users often would like not to be bothered with MacPorts and
> > friends.
> 
> Presently AFAICT, it is no longer possible to run wxWidgets natively on Mac
> unless it is an old (Power PC) Mac or still using 10.5 Leopard (instead of
> 10.6 Snow Lion or current 10.7 Lion).

WTF. Is this a known issue. Cross platform is written all over this toolkit.
> 
> I am using 10.6 Snow Leopard, and am soon to move up to 10.7 Lion, and so am
> only able to get GNUmed running under X11 and this gives some very
> frustrating behaviours:
> 

So X11 will still be possible but suck big time ?

Thanks for letting us know.

What might be possible is to build GNUmed on MacOS 10.5 as dmg and run it on 
10.6 or 10.7 since all libraries are bundled into the dmg.

Sebastian