Hi: The Macintosh operating system used to be called OS X Then it was renamed macOS. That was around the time Apple created a spin off iOS for their mobile devices.
So these days people refer to the hardware as Macs (both desktop and laptop) And iPhone, iPad, iWatch for their mobile devices. What make of Mac do you have? What version of macOS? If you have questions I will try to help. Peter > On Nov 27, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann > <m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > there is a very nice description of how to install GNU APL on Macintosh > written > by Peter Teeson. You can find in in the HOWTOs directory. > > I don't know if Macintosh uses OSX, but Peters document is anyhow worthwhile > reading. > > BTW I have updated the ⎕PLOT error message to be more specific as to which > library is missing. > > Best Rgeards, > Jürgen Sauermann > > > On 11/27/19 12:32 PM, Antonio Juan wrote: >> Thanks; I need to completely read the GNU-APL DOC, sorry about that >> >> You are right the problem is with the libxcb. >> >> ⎕plot 1 2 3 4 5 >> SYNTAX ERROR+ >> ⎕PLOT 1 2 3 4 5 >> ^ >> )MORE >> ⎕PLOT is not available because either no libxcb library was found on this >> system when GNU APL was compiled, or because it was disabled in ./configure. >> >> Exist a tutorials for building gnu-apl in OSX >> >> Thanks for your time >> >> Toni >> >>> El 26 nov 2019, a las 17:27, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann >>> <m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de <mailto:m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de>> >>> escribió: >>> >>> Hi Toni, >>> >>> the + character after SYNTAX ERROR (or any other APL error) indicates that >>> there >>> is more information available regarding that error. The additional >>> information >>> can be displayed with command )MORE. >>> >>> I suspect that in this particular case libraries needed for plotting >>> (essentially libX11.so, >>> libxcb.so, and libX11-xcb.so) were missing on the platform where GNU APL >>> was compiled >>> (i.e. your own machine if you compiled from source or the build machine of >>> a package if >>> you installed a binary package). >>> >>> For ⎕PLOT to work, you may need to compile the interpreter from source with >>> the required >>> X libraries installed beforehand. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Jürgen Sauermann >>> >>> >>> On 11/26/19 2:27 PM, Antonio Juan wrote: >>>> Thanks for this awesome software. I have installed gnu plot 1.8 from brew >>>> package. It works well, and good integration with emacs. So it is a good >>>> environment for learning APL. >>>> >>>> The only think is that when I try to plot I always get the following error: >>>> >>>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3 >>>> SYNTAX ERROR+ >>>> ⎕PLOT 0 1 ¯1 2 ¯2 3 ¯3 >>>> ^ >>>> >>>> I do not see anywhere, if is needed to load a workspace, or the needed for >>>> some environment configuration during installation. So really I do not >>>> know how to proceed. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your time >>>> >>>> Toni >>>> >>> >> >
