[BioRuby] FW: ruby Bio::Graphics on Mac?

[Toshiaki Katayama]

Jan,

I have not tried Bio::Graphics yet (sorry), but cairo and rcairo can be easily installed with MacPorts and RubyGems.

Toshiaki

% uname -a
Darwin 9064.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
% sudo port install cairo
--->  Fetching render
--->  Attempting to fetch renderext-0.9.tar.bz2 from http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for render
--->  Extracting render
--->  Configuring render
--->  Building render with target all
--->  Staging render into destroot
--->  Packaging tgz archive for render 0.9_0
--->  Installing render 0.9_0
--->  Activating render 0.9_0
--->  Cleaning render
--->  Fetching xrender
--->  Attempting to fetch libXrender-0.9.0.tar.bz2 from http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xrender
--->  Extracting xrender
--->  Configuring xrender
--->  Building xrender with target all
--->  Staging xrender into destroot
--->  Packaging tgz archive for xrender 0.9.0_0+darwin_8
--->  Installing xrender 0.9.0_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating xrender 0.9.0_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning xrender
--->  Fetching cairo
--->  Attempting to fetch cairo-1.4.2.tar.gz from http://cairographics.org/releases/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for cairo
--->  Extracting cairo
--->  Configuring cairo
--->  Building cairo with target all
--->  Staging cairo into destroot
--->  Packaging tgz archive for cairo 1.4.2_0
--->  Installing cairo 1.4.2_0
--->  Activating cairo 1.4.2_0
--->  Cleaning cairo
% sudo gem install cairo
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed cairo-1.5.0



On 2007/10/25, at 0:50, jan aerts (RI) wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George [mailto:georgkam at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sun 21/10/2007 22:29
> To: jan aerts (RI)
> Cc: edallen at stanford.edu; francesco.strozzi at gmail.com; leotta at cshl.edu
> Subject: Re: ruby Bio::Graphics on Mac?
>
> On a different but related note, i tried to run Bio::Graphics on Windows 
> but was not successful. Has anyone tried it?
> I installed Gtk+ in the hope of bundling cairo along with it.but i don't 
> know exactly how i would call cairo.
>
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> jan aerts (RI) wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Is anyone using Bio::Graphics on a Mac? I've never used Mac before, but am trying to get cairo and rcairo running on that OS and have been unable to do so. Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> jan.
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