[Therion] macOS installation

[Philippe Vernant]

Forgot to add that therion run in command line and loch is ok. This only a problem for xtherion. 
Phil

> Le 31 oct. 2025 à 13:19, Philippe Vernant <phil.vernant at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I’m stuck also with the installation. Either ways I have the following message :
> Error in startup script: version conflict for package "Tk": have 9.0.2, need 8.1.1
>    while executing
> "package require Tk 8.1.1"
> 
> Did one of you find a way to work around that problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2025, at 15:49, Oliver Legg <ollylegg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Trying using cmake, I find it does a better job at finding dependencies:
>> 
>>   cd therion
>>   cmake -S . -B build
>>   cd build
>>   make
>> 
>>>> On 30 Oct 2025, at 13:36, Anže Abram <anze.abram at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> - I am also using the 6.3.4 version I got from https://github.com/therion/therion/releases/tag/v6.3.4
>>> - For compiling from source, I am using this page: https://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/os-tips:osx10.8
>>> 
>>> I produce the error when I run the bolded command.
>>> 
>>> cd ~/Downloads/therion
>>> make config-macosx
>>> make <----
>>> cd loch
>>> make
>>> cd ..
>>> make install
>>> 
>>> - I installed all the dependencies before via homebrew. Most were installed, but I run into two problems:
>>> 
>>> 'lcdf' package is non-existent, so I installed 'lcdf-typetools' instead.
>>> 'pkg' package is also non-existant, but I didn't know which package to install instead. Suggestions?
>>> 
>>> Maybe it's worth pointing out that 'therion' and 'xtherion' compile fine, it's the Loch part that the compiler gets stuck at.
>>> 
>>> Anze
>>> 
>>> Anže Abram
>>> Ulica bratov Učakar 84, 1000 Ljubljana
>>> SI - Slovenia
>>> 
>>> M +386 41 480 906
>>> @ anze.abram at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> Naše oči je zalila
>>> lava goreča.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 at 12:20, Oliver Legg <ollylegg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Anže,
>>> 
>>> I managed to compile therion from source yesterday, on an Apple Silicon Mac, but with the previous version of macOS Sequoia 15.6.1.
>>> 
>>> I used the v6.3.4 tag (17059ab27ce491f1edac150da2b7e2011f79b800).
>>> 
>>> Are you using the CMake build method?
>>> 
>>> I did install the dependencies via Homebrew (taken from the `ladislavb/homebrew-therion` repository):
>>> 
>>>   brew install BWidget cmake catch2 fmt freetype ghostscript imagemagick lcdf libjpeg libpng pkg proj tcl vtk wxwidgets zlib
>>>   brew install --cask xquartz
>>> 
>>> Olly
>>> 
>>>> On 30 Oct 2025, at 07:52, Anže Abram <anze.abram at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Greetings.
>>>> 
>>>> I've been trying to reinstall Therion on a new M-series macbook on the newest OS (Tahoe) but have run into several 'dead ends'.
>>>> 
>>>> (1) First I tried the homebrew method, but I ran into the same issue as several others. The whole homebrew route seems to be broken currently.
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/ladislavb/homebrew-therion/issues/15
>>>> 
>>>> (2) I tried to compile it from source, but it gets stuck while trying to compile Loch with the following error:
>>>> 
>>>> In file included from lxSetup.cxx:39:
>>>> ./lxData.h:35:10: fatal error: 'vtkPolyData.h' file not found
>>>>  35 | #include <vtkPolyData.h>
>>>>     |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> 1 error generated.
>>>> make[1]: *** [lxSetup.o] Error 1
>>>> make: *** [loch/loch] Error 2
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know of a solution, how to tackle any of these problems by chance? Thanks in advance,
>>>> Anze
>>>> 
>>>> Anže Abram
>>>> Ulica bratov Učakar 84, 1000 Ljubljana
>>>> SI - Slovenia
>>>> 
>>>> M +386 41 480 906
>>>> @ anze.abram at gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> Naše oči je zalila
>>>> lava goreča.
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