[Xcircuit-dev] How to build xcircuit on OS X

[Kevin Brock]

This worked for me:

1) Get Tcl and Tk 8.5.8 and build them.

Build the *unix* versions, not the macos versions, using standard 

./configure 
make
sudo make install

Tcl first, then Tk of course.  This puts them in /usr/local.  This worked on 10.6 with no problems.  All of the Tcl test suite worked.

2) In the xcircuit directory run 

./configure --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib

3) edit tclxcircuit.c to #ifdef out the va_copy definition around line 96.  configure is mistakenly saying we don't have va_copy, but we do and the definition there causes an errlr.

4) edit Makefile to set LDFLAGS  to -L/usr/X11/lib, because .configure isn't setting that properly, even with --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib set.

5) build and install.

make
sudo make install

and it runs for me.  I haven't tested the functionality yet, but hey, it's not crashing :-)

I'm not going to chase down the configure bugs right now...

Kevin