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On Thu, 28 Jul 2016, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>
>> On 28 Jul 2016, at 08:10, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James Battat (jbattat AT wellesley DOT edu) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>>> I can add one point of view here.  When I was a brand-new user (started
>>> using gEDA in 2014 ? I still consider myself a ?quite new" user), I found the
>>> following frustrating when trying out gEDA:
>>>
>>> * Difficulty to install on my machine (Mac) (e.g. here and here)
>>>   Eventually, but reluctantly, I gave up and settled on running gschem/pcb
>>> in a linux virtual machine.
>>>   Once I chose to switch though, the linux install was painless.
>>
>> To keep the list updated on this...
>>
>> Thanks to James and his detailed bug reports and his patience to test the fixes from iteration to iteration, this starts to be getting better in pcb-rnd land.
>>
>> By now pcb-rnd should configure and compile out of the box on Mac. There are probably still some run-time bugs, but I have high hopes about getting pcb-rnd operational on Mac this summer.
>
>
> What are the dependencies for pcb-rnd on OS X?  I?d be happy to give it a go.

I am not sure about OS X, but can talk in general.

You'll need:

  - an svn client

  - the usual set of shell utils (POSIX shell, awk, sed, grep - should work 
with non-GNU, if breaks, please report; this will change long term, only 
a shell will be needed)

  - a C compielr (not necessarily gcc; e.g. clang should work)

  - make (in theory it doesn't need to be GNU make; if you are using 
non-GNU and it breaks, that's a bug, please report)

  - if you want the gtk hid: libgtk and glib

  - and/or if you want the lesstif hid, the lesstif lib

As of today, you don't have to have bison and flex and gettext is 
optional too (pcb-rnd has no working translations atm).

Please report if anything breaks or you think something is strange.

Regards,

Igor2