Installing asymptote

[Murray Eisenberg]

On 5/29/12 3:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> On 5/29/12 1:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)?
>>
>> 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?
>
> The binaries for asymptote are at the same place where all the others
> (/usr/locate/texlive/201[012]/bin/(universal|x86_64)-darwin/,
> symlinked in /usr/texbin). If you didn't install it (if you installed
> just BasicTeX for example), then you could install it with "tlmgr
> install asymptote" or with TeX Live Utility. You can get the latest
> MacTeX from one of tlpretest servers on
>      http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
> but the version of asymptote has not yet changed since 2011.
>
> xasy doesn't seem to be an executable, but rather a python script and
> it seems to me that the only requirements come from python's Tkinters.
>
> I tried to install py27-tkinter, then xasy complained that PIL is
> missing, so I installed py27-pil and it worked from then on, but only
> with X11 (a bit ugly for my taste, but it does the job). Then I tried
> running xasy with /usr/bin/python2.7 which fired up an Aqua interface,
> but sadly with an error: "An error occurred loading the required PIL
> library. Please install
> http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz". There is a mac
> package on that website, but I didn't actually try it out.
>
> So basically all you need is a working python with tkinter and PIL,
> but you can install those with MacPorts independently from asymptote
> compilation. (The only question that comes to my mind is why MacPorts
> is only shipping X11 variant of Tkinter.)
>
>
> Library dependencies of asymptote from MacTeX:
>
>> otool -L asy
> asy:
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 125.2.11)
> 	/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
> 	/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current
> version 5.4.0)
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/GLUT.framework/Versions/A/GLUT
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa
> (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 15.0.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.9.0)
>
> Mojca
>

I have the ports of py27-tkinter and py27-pil installed. And I first run 
X11. But still, when I run xasy, I get the pop-up "Failed Dependencies" 
message window: "An error occurred loading the required PIL library. 
Please install htp://efbot.og/downlaods/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz."

I also tried running XQuarts instead of the Mac's X11.app. Same failure, 
though.

So I'm still stymied.

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