Compiling OpenInventor(TM) on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

By Kuratate0

First report created: June 5, 2008

(Panther-SGI Imagelib fixed version is described in 'Compliing OpenInventor on Panther (Imagelib fixed)', Tiger version is described in 'Compling OpenInventor on Tiger' page.)

Introduction

Some Mac systems may have a problem of window output (at least author's MacBook Pro), but some may work (at least author's MacBook Air and PPC Mac Mini)

Install libraries, obtaining OpenInventor tar.gz file and patch for 10.3 Panther

(Many thanks to www.memntion.com!)

First of all, the patch file in this page is based on 'ivpatch' by http://www.memention.com/ivscript.

The followings are the summary of steps by ivscript.

install fink
install openmotif3, libjpeg, freetype2, freetype2-dev using fink
obtain OpenInventor source code (inventor-2.1.5-10.src.tar.gz) from SGI (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/, click Download and download from their FTP server)
expand inventor-2.1.5-10.src.tar.gz
apply ivpatch (patch -p 0 < ivpath)
define DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
(go to the next section for 10.5 Leopard)

For extra steps for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Author tested on PowerPC Mac (Mac Mini) and Intel Mac (MacBook Pro and MacBook Air), and found that they required different patches for each system. Please download ivleopard_ppc_patch for PowerPC Mac or ivleopard_intel_patch for Intel Mac.

Obtain GNU bison 1.28 source code and comple, and define 'yacc2' to access bison 1.28
(The bison 2.3 came with Leopard has a problem to process yacc file in OpenInventor distribution: so just use bison 1.28 used on Panther is easier than fixing yacc source!)
- obtain bison-1.28.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or mirror sites
- expand tar.gz file, cd,cofigure and make
- install bison-1.28 but avoid conflicting with bison 2.3 on Leopard
  - sudo cp src/bison /usr/bin/bison1.28
  - sudo cp src/bison.simple /usr/local/share (you can change '/usr/local/share' when you configure)
  - sudo cp /usr/bin/yacc /usr/bin/yacc2 ('yacc' is a sh script to call bison: 'yacc2' is used in my patch, so please keep this name.)
  - sudo vi /usr/bin/yacc2 or sudo emacs /usr/bin/yacc2 and modify it to call /usr/bin/bison1.28
Now, just apply another patch to compile!
Apply patch according to your CPU type (patch -p 0 < ivleopard_ppc_patch or ivleopard_intel_patch) (You have to apply 'ivpatch' for 10.3Panther before this!)
cd inventor, and make
(It will stop around installing /usr/man/man1 for normal users)
cd apps and make

however, it may stop compling following cases:

it will stop again when it buildig a binary for samples/widgets/compoentTest.c++ with following error (for intel Mac, the undefined symbol will be "_glwMDrawingAreaWidggetClass").

/usr/bin/g++  -L//usr/lib  -multiply_defined suppress -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib/freetype2/lib -lm -L../../../lib -L../../../libSoXt -L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin9/4.0.1 -L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/X11R6/lib/   componentTest.o          libInventorWidget.a -lInventor -lInventorXt -lGLw -lXi -lXm -lXt -lX11 -lGLU -lGL -liconv -ldl -lstdc++.6 -lmx -lgcc_s.10.5 -lgcc -dylib_file /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib   -o componentTest
Undefined symbols:
  "_glwM2DrawingAreaWidgetClass", referenced from:
      _glwM2DrawingAreaWidgetClass$non_lazy_ptr in libInventorWidget.a(MyTextureEd.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [componentTest] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

I'm not sure to avoid this error (I accidentaly avoid it before updating XQuartz, but after updates, I cannot do it... Even though, we avoid it on Intel Mac, you cannot get proper window output on Intel Mac...). Anyway, just avoid this with a dummy output by following:
```
  echo > samples/widgets/componentTest
```
type 'make' again
make shoud finish without problem after that: however, it will not compile subdirectories under samples/ except widgets, you have to make for each if you need them.

Some systems may have different probelm: you may encounter

remove bison1.28 and related files
- sudo rm /usr/bin/bison1.28 /usr/bin/yacc2 /usr/local/share/bison.simple

Because of the "Undefined symbols" error about "_glwM2DrawingAreaWidgetClass" in libInventorWidget.a(MyTextureEd.o), , some programs using InventorWidget may not work properly.

On Intel Mac, even though the compiler worked fine, the inventor program with window ouput will not work: it complains "Warning: Cannot find callbak list in XtAddCallback" many times and show gray window only... Also Intel Mac has a problem reading binary inventor files.

Problems, Information, etc...

Please refere Tiger version for library information.
It works fine on author's MacBook Air (except loading binary data.)
On author's MacBook Pro, all bianaries complain "Warning: Cannot find callbak list in XtAddCallback" a lot, and only gray screen will be displayed: however, its menu function may work properly...
- This could be causeed by (a) it was upgraded from Tiger, (b) some packages installed by 'fink' may have inconsistensy (it may contains older versions installed when I was using Tiger), or (c) some system files or libraries could be damaged (this MacBook Pro has some trouble since Tiger: even though it has few GB free space in its system disk, the Finder often complains "Your system disk is almost full.") Author will try clean-install some time in the near future and see how it will turn out. (This MacBook Pro is author's current main work platform, so it is hard to perform clean-install).
Intel Mac cannot read binary OpenInventor data (could be an Endian problem.)
The default texture quality is 0.5: however, it is much better to change higher value for recent graphcis systems.
Just changing default value in lib/database/include/Inventor/elements/SoTextureQualityElement.h (line 87) from 0.5 to0.9 make it easier to get better texture mapping without changing in your OpenInventor program or data (like the default texture output was better when you used Reality Engine).
inventor/libimage/libimage.a is a library to read / write SGI Imagelib format images: the patch fixes for reading, writing and for 64bit, but only reading function is verified.

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