[Therion] [SPAM] macOS installation

[Robert Xavier]

Hi Philippe,

I installed Tk 8.1.1. I did did something like that :
brew unlink tcl-tk
brew install tcl-tk at 8

It worked for me.

Xavier

> Le 31 oct. 2025 à 13:40, Philippe Vernant <phil.vernant at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> 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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