[chimera-dev] Chimera

[Eric Pettersen]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:00 PM, Markus Winter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> any chance of a MacOS X version?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Markus

Hi Markus,
	We are certainly interested in getting an OS X version working, and the 
beta development tools Apple recently released got us a lot further than we 
had been able to get previously.  Right now, those tools have a bug in the 
runtime linker and we need Apple to fix it to get any farther.  When Python 
attempts to load the C++ Chimera core module (which in turn links in some 
C++ libraries that require initialization) the linker gets hung in a 
semaphore lock.  We have communicated our difficulties to Apple 
representatives and are waiting for them to get back to us about submitting 
the simple test case we made to reproduce the problem.  We expect to hear 
from Apple soon, but have no idea how long it will take to go from bug 
submission to a usable fix.
	Keep your fingers crossed. :-)


                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         pett@cgl.ucsf.edu
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu