NCL users,
I am pleased to announce that we have NCL binaries available for
MacOSX.
To download these binaries, go to
http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/download.html, fill out the form, and click
on "submit" which will give you an available list of binaries.
Before you do this, you will first want to install "XonX" (which gives
you an X server on which to display your graphics) and "dlcompat"
which is necessary in order to run ncl.
To install and launch Xonx:
1. Go to http://sf.net/projects/xonx
2. Click on "Download" under the "Latest File Releases" box
3. Right-click on "XInstall_10.1.sit" and do a "save as" to save
the file.
4. Once you have this file, double-click it from your Mac to
install the X stuff.
5. You should see a big red X on your tool bar at the bottom (if
not, try logging out and logging back in) . If you
double-click it, it will launch XFree86, and provide you with
some terminal windows to type in. I was able to setenv
DISPLAY to 0:0, and then run "ng4ex xy01n -clean" and
"ctrans -d X11 gmeta" and other applications.
Also, if you are having trouble running NCL because of error messages
about "can't open library /sw/lib/libdl.dylib", then you will need to
install the dl library, which doesn't come with native MacOSX.
To install this library, you need to get the "dlcompat" package which
is available through fink:
fink install dlcompat
If you don't have fink, then I *highly* recommend you install this
package, because it allows you to easily install other software
packages available for MacOSX. Fink is available from
fink.sourceforge.net.
Cheers,
--Mary Haley
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