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Qt4.x based programs: qtiplot 0.9 for Macs with PowerPC processor(s)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:45:38 +0100

A binary installer of the qtiplot 0.9 (includes required Qt 4.3.2-, gsl1.9, muparser 1.2.7, pyQt 3.1.7 & sip 4.5.2) packed...

Qt4.x based programs: Universal binary of cb2bib 0.8.4

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:40:58 +0200

An universal binary installer for cb2bib 0.8.4 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

Qt4.x based programs: Universal Binary of massxpert 1.6.2 rc2

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:20:34 +0200

a universal binary installer of massxpert 1.6.0 rc2 is available for download from the ATG website (within the...

Qt4.x based programs: qtiplot 0.9 for Macs with Intel processor(s)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:07:17 +0200

A binary installer of the qtiplot 0.9 (includes required Qt 4.3.0-, gsl1.9, muparser 1.2.7, pyQt 3.1.7 & sip 4.5.2) packed...

qucs 0.0.12 including freeHDL 0.0.4 and ASCO 0.4.6 for Intel-based Macs

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:55:09 +0200

A binary installers of the qucs 0.0.12 including freeHDL 0.0.4 and ASCO 0.4.6 packed for Macs with Intel...

IPE 6.0 preview 28 EPS-Export Fix well, sort of… ;)

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:33:14 +0200

gentle persons,

there is a apparently a problem using EPS-graphics exported from IPE6.0pre28 with other Applications, particularly when...

Qt4.x based programs: IPE 6.0 preview 28 for Macs with Intel processor(s)

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:46:14 +0200

A binary installer of IPE 6.0 preview 28 packed for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Qt4.x-software section...

cb2bib 0.8.1 universal binary installer for MacOSX 10.4

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:41:34 +0200

An universal binary installer for cb2bib 0.8.1 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

QtiPlot 0.89 for Macs with Intel processor(s)

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:08:33 +0200

A binary installer of the qtiplot 0.89 (includes Qt 3.3.7-, qwt 0.5.1-, qwt3dplot 0.2.6-, gsl1.7-, pyQt 3.1.7 & sip 4.5.2)...

Qt 4.2.3 Open Source Edition installer packages for MacOSX 10.4 (or higher)

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:19:14 +0200

Installer packages of the full Qt 4.2.3 Open Source Edition (universal binary for use with PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs) are...

molsKetch 0.1 hydrogen for Intel-Macs

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:41:39 +0100

A binary installer of molsKetch 0.1 Hydrogene for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Incubator-section of the

cb2bib 0.8 universal binary for MacOSX

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:05:50 +0100

An universal binary installer for cb2bib 0.8 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

qucs 0.0.11 incl. freeHDL 0.0.3 and ASCO 0.4.5 for Intel- or PowerPC-Macs

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:26:54 +0100

Separate binary installers of the qucs 0.0.11 including freeHDL 0.0.3 and ASCO 0.4.5 packed for Macs with Intel...

Engauge/Digitizer 4.0 for Intel Installer fix

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:10:44 +0100

A problem with the Engauge/Digitizer 4.0 for Macs with Intel-Processor(s) slipped trough my testing but was kindly reported by Adam...

error: 'errno' undeclared

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:24:16 +0100

when trying to compile some *nix-based sources you might encounter the the compiler stops and throws an error similar to...

Engauge 4.0 for Macs with Intel processor(s)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:05:15 +0100

A binary installer of engauge/digitizer 4.0 packed for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Qt3.3.x-software section on the...

statist 1.4.1 universal binary for MacOSX

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:31:51 +0100

An installerpackages of statist 1.4.1 (universal binary for use with PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs) is available from the Incubator-section on...

compiler&linker flags from shell for universal binary

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:59:53 +0100

okay, just as a reminder for myself - this is the compiler flag:

CFLAGS="-O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch...

pstplus 1.1 universal binary

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:51:44 +0100

An universal binary installer for pstplus 1.1 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

texwiz 2.0.0 universal binary

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:58:22 +0100

An universal binary installer for texwiz 2.0.0 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

RLPlot 1.3 for Macs with Intel processor(s)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:02:34 +0100

A binary installer of RLPlot 1.3 packed for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Qt3.3.x-software section on the...

qucs 0.0.11 including freeHDL 0.0.3 for Intel-Macs

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:43:34 +0100

A binary installerof the qucs 0.0.11 including freeHDL 0.0.3 packed for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Qt3.3.x-software...

cb2bib 0.7.2 universal binary

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:28:16 +0100

An universal binary installer for cb2bib 0.7.2 can be downloaded from the Qt4.x-software section on the

gnuplot 4.2 binary installer packages for MacOSX

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:33:11 +0100

Binary installerpackages of gnuplot 4.2 are available from the Incubator-section on the ATG website. For...

"it's still alive" - some updates

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:07:11 +0100

well, so after "fixing" the blog, updating the links list, and-whatever-else, there are some more software updates or new installers...

Social Network Visualiser (SNV) 0.43.1 for Intel-based Macs

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:21:55 +0100

A binary installerof the SNV 0.43.1 packed for Macs with Intel processor(s) is available from the Qt3.3.x-software section on the...

Access to the old ATG-weblog

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:49:27 +0100

for sentimental reasons the old ATG weblog is still available and can be accessed via

Visual Guide IV - Measuring cells with ImageJ

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:56:53 +0100

A first "visual" guide, in this case, related to image processing is available from the blog at the ATG-website ....

XDrawChem & working EPS-export

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:23:29 +0100

As a side effect of the solution for Ipe 6 to use LaTEX without the need to start the program...

Terminal: Formatting an external hard disk for usage with Mac & PC

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:59:37 +0100

The easiest solution is of course to format an external harddrive in FAT32 - MacOSX supports this filesystem upto 128...

Error handling: "help! the program does not start…" OR "the program starts up, but immediately quits…"

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:57:30 +0100

When clicking a program icon under MacOSX, the icon appears shortly in the dock, but the program quits *more or...

Terminal: Creating disk images under MacOSX, which can be burned on CD/DVD under Windows

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:53:42 +0100

Due to the different options for creating a diskimage (compression, cryption, file system), the easiest solution is to convert an...

E-Mailing: using GMail for sending mails

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:51:00 +0100

If you encounter problems sending mails via Google's free mail service from your MacOSX machine, please check that your firewall...

Deactivating the DashBoard under MacOSX 10.4

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:50:02 +0100

If you don´t use the dashboard you might like to deactivate it permanently on your computer. Open a terminal/shell and...

MacOSX 10.4.x "nothing to install"-error

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:48:42 +0100

This is a really, really strenuous one… well, when making an installer with Apple's PackageMaker it might be possible, that...

MacOSX 10.3.x & 10.4.x: repairing disk permission error: "no valid packages (-9997)"

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:42:39 +0100

Apple's Disk Utility needs the file BaseSystem.pkg inside the folder /Library/Receipts to execute a permission repair on the startup disk....

compiling errors related to strdupa

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:40:48 +0100

sometimes one might run into a strdupa related problem compiling a source code under MacOSX. One solution is to replace...

OpenGL Headers & MacOSX

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:37:37 +0100

If you like to access OpenGL headers under MacOSX you can achieve this as described in the body of this...

Apple preprocessor OR Gnu ?

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:36:37 +0100

Apparently sometimes it is a good idea to use the GNU preprocessor instead of Apple´s. In this case extend the...

libtool: link: cannot find the library `' - error

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:35:56 +0100

A "typical" problem I encountered with libtool is that the error messages sometimes are not really helpful. For example:

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Missing "values.h"

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:34:12 +0100

On BSD based operating systems *like MacOSX* the header file "values.h" does not exist. Replacing the include file is one...

"malloc.h" not found

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:27:58 +0100

make might fail to compile some existing unix code if it not can find malloc.h.

Older...

"configure: error: can not guess host type"

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:26:04 +0100

If you try to compile older *nix code which comes with a configure script, you might run into the (in)*famous*...

compilation error: "strstream.h: No such file or directory"

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:21:26 +0100

While using the gcc 3.3 to compile older code one might run into an "strstream.h: No such file or directory"-error...

"'uint32_t' undeclared"-error

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:20:30 +0100

If you run into an 'uint32_t' undeclared - error, simply replace uint32_t with u_int32_t

If you...

"Undefined Symbols: _strtok_r"-error

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:51 +0100

The occurances of strok_r() have to be replaced with strtok() *this might get really boring*

for...

QMAKESPEC for MacOSX

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:17:59 +0100

In principle it is a good idea to have the QMAKESPEC enviroment variable set to compile existing code.

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Compiling Qt 4.x.x based universal binaries for MacOSX 10.4 or higher

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:13:07 +0100

Trolltech's Qt 4.x.x provides support for compiling universal binaries (using qmake or XCode). If you like to compile the Qt-framework...

"dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: lazy pointer not found"-error

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:10:05 +0100

if one starts compiling programs *well, I heard that some call this "porting" =;)* to MacOSX it can happen for...