MAC version thread

I just thought (considering how things are evolving) a mac-only thread would be usefull, so there a unique place for mac-only related issues. Here mac users should post their experiences: is kerkythea running properly? What system are you using? Leopard? Tiger? What are the steps you followed to make it run? And so on.

Here is my experience so far:

Kekythea RC3 is NOT running on PPC Leopard. Reverting to X11 v1.0 (which was sort of a pain) did not make things better. Results are the same in both cases: the terminal console poso in, stays there and after a couple seconds output a "Bus error".

Kerkythea RC3 is NOT running on iMAc or MacMini (Intel architecture), both on Leopard and the latest X11 version. Error here is "Cannot execute binary file".

[giannis]

It seems that in Leopard, you don't need to start X11 prior to application
because it should automatically.

Here's link with a suggestion how to make the app running correctly.
I am not sure if it will work...


Basically, what they say in the end is to comment one line in
the initialization script.

Mmm, i don't follow it. Anyway seems like X11 should start by simply double clicking the kerkythea executable, but that's not my case. Starting X11 manually and then double clicking the executable doesn't change the output from the terminal (cannot execute binary file..)
Still clueless.

[giannis]

here's a link about Leopard & X11 problems:


Somehow, from what I read, I feel that the main problems come
from X11 integration on Leopard..

To summarize, if I am not wrong:
1. KT should run on MacOSX 10.4.xx (Tiger) - but you should launch before X11
2. KT does not run on Leopard
3. KT does not run on PPC

that's 33% success so far...

[giannis]

I made an update yesterday regarding mac build.

So, here's a link with an archive created in MacOSX (without password):


Two changes:
1. I changed the SDK that I am linking against (to be MacOS.4u)
2. I made the fix for the command line run of KT.

perhaps you can download and try the zip (it has only the binary)
for Leopard & PPC.

[giannis]

Some progress
Launching the material test scene by command line kerkythea goes one step further:
Evaluation version screen > press OK
then i get an error screen: "invalid extension, the given 3d format can not be open/saved"

...unluckily that's the only scene i have on this machine atm.

Anyway, a step further

[edit]
here the final part of the error i get in temrinal console:

sizeof(mutex): 96, sizeof(pthread_rwlock): 128
Opening file "myscene.xml"
Finished in 0 seconds!
No active camera in the scene - rendering aborted


(oddly, the file i tried to render is named "test.xml" not "myscene.xml")

GOT IT

Simply i was launching with this command:
/applications/kerky/./kerkythea1 myscene.xml

then i treid to do first "cd /applications/kerky"
and then launching "./kerkythea1 myscene.xml"

that way the render satrts

After importing the scene (the % clock type window) it opens the render window, starts shooting photons then quits at 60%.

Console says:
sizeof(mutex): 96, sizeof(pthread_rwlock): 128
Opening file "myscene.xml"
Warning: Can not set parameter Final Gathering of object Density Estimation
Warning: Can not set parameter Mesh Subdivision of object Density Estimation
Warning: Can not set parameter ./Final Gathering/Hardware Rendering of object Density Estimation
Warning: Can not set parameter ./Final Gathering/Final Gathering Rays of object Density Estimation
Warning: Can not set parameter ./Final Gathering/Crop Intensity (HR) of object Density Estimation
Warning: Can not set parameter ./Final Gathering/Accuracy of object Density Estimation
Finished in 32 seconds!
Using reverse gamma correction (exposure:1, gamma:2.2)
Building Octree : |ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo| (2 seconds)
Octree Analysis (63496 triangles, 56280 nodes, 35858 leaves, 0 unmeshed objects, 0 instances, 7Mb memory)
Final Gathering: Using secondary irradiance estimator Density Estimation
Mesh Estimation : |ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooo| (2 seconds)
Density Estimation: Using 0.316568m detail in mesh generation.
Photon Shooting : |ooooooo|ooooooo|ooooooSegmentation fault

We're getting there?