[Magic-dev] Magic binary for OS X 10.3

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Jordan,

> I began a course in VLSI this fall.  We began using magic quite a bit, and
> I was tired of having to drive to campus just to get my work done.  I
> downloaded the source and after a bunch of jumping through hoops, I was
> able to get it to compile and run under Mac OS X v10.3.  I have seen many
> others asking for instruction on how to get version 7.1 to build and run
> in Mac OS X v10.3, so I decided to provide a binary download on my website:
> http://homepage.mac.com/floyd2255/software/.

Have you tried compiling magic-7.2 or magic-7.3 under Mac OS-X?  I made
a number of changes that should make it almost trivial to do, especially
if you follow the instructions as per obtaining the "fink" package
version of Tcl and Tk.

Magic-7.3 should be much more amenable to student use, anyway.

If you can tell me what you did to the source for 7.1 to get it to compile
under OS-X, I can incorporate those changes into the source so that the
next time somebody tries compiling from source, it will just work.

					Regards,
					Tim