Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 10:42:51 05/29/02
I managed to get Scid3.2 running under OSX and XDarwin and somebody told me that there were questions here about it. Following I show you my way which I think is easy but of course you can compile the software packages yourself if you want. First of all you need Xfree86 for OSX (and I suppose you know how to get it) and an Xwin Server. I use Xfree86_4.2 and OroborOSX0.8p2. http://www.mrcla.com/XonX/ http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/ Then you also need at least the following software packages (or newer), which I installed via fink. (you also need the fink basefile package if you use fink and the run dselect or fink install. More about fink on http://fink.sourceforge.net/ ) tk-8.3.4_3 tcl-8.3.4_4 python-2.2.1 ncurses-5.2 Because fink installs into /sw (which is good so you can easy remove it if neccessary) an scid looks for tcl/tk in /usr/local/lib you also must do the following links: ln -s /sw/lib/tcl8.3 /usr/local/lib/tcl8.3 ln -s /sw/lib/tk8.3 /usr/local/lib/tk8.3 Now to Scid. Of course you could compile scid for yourself, but there are some errors you have to sort out. The easier way is to grab the binaries for OSX at: http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/packages/ppc/tk83/scid-3.2_1.tgz which is what I did, and they work well. Copy the bin file to /usr/local/bin and the share files into /usr/local/share. Be careful, when you have Xdarwin running (or OroborOSX) then type in the Xterm window tkscid then just an empty windows opens and you get a % prompt in Xterm (the tcl parser). In the parser you type then scid and the program starts. You maybe want to go to the scid website and fetch a database. :) http://scid.sourceforge.net Good Luck. Andreas Guettinger
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