After consulting several Mac users, I decided that there were very few
32-bit Mac operating systems still in use by crystallographers, so (as
stated on the new SHELX homepage) I am only providing a 64-bit
executables for Macs. The Mac executables do not run on old Macs with
PPC processors eithe
The underlying issue is that the implementation of OS X dynamic linking is
dependent system architecture. As I understand it, OS X 10.5.8 has a 32 bit
kernel, so its dynamic linking is not forward-compatible with 64 bit OS X
versions, for which SHELX-2013 seems to built.
Also, to be fair, it's
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phew - and people claim, macs were user-friendly. On Linux you just
add '-static' (at least for command line tools as the shelx programs)
and make the sane assumption that the kernel is less than say 10 years
old...
Tim
On 02/26/2013 04:50 PM, Guangy
I just downloaded it. I'm using Mac 10.5.8 and getting error messages:
dyld: unknown required load command 0x8022
Trace/BPT trap
Google search shows that:
You should contact the developer of this application. Only the developer
can fix this. The application was incorrectly built on a OS X 1
As some of you have already discovered, there is a major new release of
the whole
of SHELX (the first since 1997) complete with a new homepage that should
make
downloads easier. To obtain the programs, please point your browser to:
http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/SHELX/
and then 'register' (top of
