Installing asymptote

Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
Tue May 29 11:45:33 PDT 2012


On 5/29/12 1:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>>
>> Reason for question: Given that I already had texlive installed (but not
>> through MacPorts), I tried installing the asymptote binary obtained directly
>> from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/. But when I run the xasy command, I
>> get a pop-up saying that the PIL (Python Imaging Library) Imaging-1.1.7 is
>> required. And trying to install PIL leads to a further chain of dependencies
>> which seems like more trouble than should be necessary.
>
> Completely off-topic and it doesn't answer your question, but
> asymptote is already part of MacTeX. Is anything wrong with that one
> (maybe it doesn't have enough "sugars" / library dependencies)?
>
> Mojca
>

Not at all OT! Where are the asymptote binaries from MacTeX, and do they 
include the X-windows xasy executable, too -- and its library dependencies?

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