MGED on OSX fails with ogl_open: Can't get an appropriate visual.

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MGED on OSX fails with ogl_open: Can't get an appropriate visual. #77

Open fancsali opened 1 year ago

fancsali commented 1 year ago

A freshly built BRL-CAD 7.32.6 will fail with an error, if I try to start mged:

$ bin/mged 
ogl_open: Can't get an appropriate visual.

It does open two XQuartz windows, but they are both empty (and rather small) and the CLI just hangs there.

Only way to quit is Ctrl-C.

gwbrown commented 1 year ago

I'm having the same problem.

gwbrown commented 1 year ago

I actually can't find any evidence anyone's been able to successfully compile and run this for MacOS since 7.24.0, released in 2013. Did MacOS support get dropped from this project?

starseeker commented 1 year ago

I am able to build BRL-CAD on OSX, at least with the latest main branch sources - you'll probably need -DENABLE_ALL=ON though, as the system Tcl/Tk won't work.