I am not familiar with Macs, but on Linux the first problem could be easily solved by having the desktop shortcut call a brief shell script rather than the executable. The script would first set up the environment properly, then call the executable.
======================================================================= All Things Serve the Beam ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University schul...@cornell.edu ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Kay Diederichs <kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 8:43 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Error in xdsgui: you have to install generate_XDS.INP in your path Dear Zhen Gong, Installation of XDS and associated programs is documented in the "Installation" article in XDSwiki. If I google "XDSwiki installation article", it is the first hit. Your PATH is probably different when you double-click XDSGUI to start it, compared to what it is on the command line. So don 't double-click it! Start XDSGUI from the command line - this way you also see error messages from generate_XDS.INP, and output of POINTLESS and Coot. Use the latest versions of the programs. Concerning HDF5 processing, read the Installation article. As Graeme said, you need a library, and you need to tell XDS where it is, with a LIB= line in XDS.INP . There are different library versions for Intel Mac and Silicon Mac. if you have a Silicon Mac, I recommend to use the specific Silicon Mac versions of XDS, XDSGUI and the library. Hope this helps, Kay On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 18:24:24 +0100, Zhen Gong <zg2...@cumc.columbia.edu> wrote: >Dear all, > >I have encountered this problem in xdsgui: you have to install >generate_XDS.INP in your path. Generate_XDS.INP works fine in command line but >not in the GUI. I saw the same question was raised up by another user >previously on CCP4bb but I was not able to see Key's reply any more. > >Thank you very much for your help! > >Best regards, >Zhen > >######################################################################## > >To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > >This message was issued to members of >www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a mailing list >hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & conditions >are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/