<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Dear Achim and Gian Luca,</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Instructions to compile ESP-r on MacOS were updated in the documentation last year for version 13.3.18:</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <a href="https://appdocs.esru.strath.ac.uk/books/introduction-to-esp-r/page/macos-compile-from-source-on-apple-silicon-processors" id="OWA79e13b17-d61b-b6e0-dffd-9eea75a5fe73" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://<b>appdocs.esru.strath.ac.uk</b>/books/introduction-to-esp-r/page/macos-compile-from-source-on-apple-silicon-processors</a></div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I am not a MacOS user myself, but the instructions were checked by a few MSc students and seem to work. </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Please you feel free to amend them on the appdocs platform as you see fit.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Thank you in advance</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Daniel </div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>From:</b> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk> on behalf of Gian Luca Brunetti <gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it><br> <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 09, 2026 20:12<br> <b>To:</b> achim.geissler <achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch>; esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk>; Joe Clarke <joe@esru.strath.ac.uk><br> <b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] Re: Compiling on MacOS 26.5+ </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Dear all,</p> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">thank you Professor Clarke for correcting <code>update_notes.txt</code>. </p> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Achim, good to know that the <code> -std=gnu17</code> workaround also works with 13.3.17 on your M2 Mac.</p> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">On Ubuntu, after forcing GNU C17, the X11 part compiled and ESP-r installed successfully. I did not encounter the additional issues you are seeing with 13.3.18 on macOS.</p> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Thanks also for sharing the Mac-specific changes to <code>Install</code>.</p> <p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Best<br> Gian Luca</p> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div id="x_editor-signature"> <div><br> Gian Luca Brunetti<br> Politecnico di Milano<br> DAStU- Department of Architecture and Urban Studies / Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani<br> via Bonardi 3, building 12<br> 20133 Milano<br> tel. (+39) 02 2399 5750<br> cell. (+39) 335 8040808<br> email: gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it</div> </div> <hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"> <div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"> <div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>From:</b> achim.geissler <achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch><br> <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 9, 2026 4:02 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Gian Luca Brunetti <gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it>; esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [esp-r] Compiling on MacOS 26.5+</div> <div style="direction: ltr;"> </div> </div> <div>Hi Gian Luca,</div> <div><br> </div> <div>your fix works fine for V13.3.17 on MacOS 26.6 (M2) using (brew installed) gcc-16 which seems to correspond to MacOSX26.sdk (-std=gnu17 does not cause an issue). X is fired up as expected (I haven’t run any test on actual functionality, yet, though).</div> <div><br> </div> <div>On MacOS, I need some additional changes to ‘Install' due to the non-editable /usr/ directory on macs (line-numbers refer to modified Install), given here for anybody interested (I use brew for any “Linux” packages):</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Approx. line 340 ff:</div> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">   </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">else</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">    xml_libs_found=</span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"yes"</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">    </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">if</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> [ </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">$machine</span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> = </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"arm64"</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> ]; </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">then</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">        LIBXML2_INCLUDE=</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">"-I/opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2 -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libxslt/include/libxslt"</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">    </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">else</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">        LIBXML2_INCLUDE=</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">"-I/usr/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libxslt -I/local/include/libxslt"</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">    </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">fi</span></p> <div style="font-size: 11px;"><br> </div> <div style="font-size: 11px;">Approx. line 804 ff:</div> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">case</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> $platform </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">in</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">  mac)</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">      localinclude=</span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"-I/opt/homebrew/include"</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">      ;;</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">  *)  localinclude=</span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"-I/usr/local/include"</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> ;;</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">esac</span></p> <div style="font-size: 11px;"><br> </div> <p style="line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(163, 21, 21);"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LOCAL_INCLUDES=</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">"-I../include -I../shocc </span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">${localinclude}</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> -I../cetc/h3kreports"</span></p> <div><br> </div> <div>Sadly it seems that between V.17 and V.18 changes in the X code break the X-connection for MacOS. During compile, for V.18 the header file mntext.h and others are missing. I found these in package 'brew install emscripten’ (compiler toolchain to WebAssembly) which makes 'mntext.h’, 'bits/alltypes.h' and 'bits/dirent.h’ available. No idea what this is actually necessary for in ESP-r.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>For what its worth.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Best</div> <div>Achim</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <blockquote> <div>On 8 Aug 2026, at 23:18, Gian Luca Brunetti <gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it> wrote:</div> <div><br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Hi Achim,</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I have just encountered a different issue with 13.3.18 on a current Ubuntu system, so I thought I would mention it here in case it is useful to others.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In my case, the installation stopped while building the X11 part of ESP-r, in esru_x.c. With a recent GCC, some old-style C declarations, for example</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> extern gnwkquery_();</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> are interpreted differently, which led to errors such as “too many arguments to function”, together with a conflicting declaration of getenv().</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I was able to get past this by compiling the C code using GNU C17 semantics, adding</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -std=gnu17</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to the CFLAGS used by the installer.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The patch I used was:</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> sed -i '/GNU).*CFLAGS=/ s|";;| -std=gnu17 -Wno-error=implicit-int -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";;|' Install</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This is a different issue from the update_notes.txt problem you describe, but the workaround might still be worth sharing.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> For completeness: I used ChatGPT to formulate the workaround.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Best</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Gian Luca</div> <div id="x_x_Signature"> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br> </div> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Gian Luca Brunetti</div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Associate Professor</div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Arch. 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(+39) 02 2399 5750</div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> cell. (+39) 3358040808</div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> email: <a href="mailto:gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it" id="OWA6c4d957c-87bc-f8f7-dd5f-da84f5d1520c" class="OWAAutoLink"> gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it</a></div> </div> </div> <hr style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 1181.88px;"> <div id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg"> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk" id="OWA4d0fc854-a134-05ee-d7e4-9ce35f58a897" class="OWAAutoLink">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk" id="OWA00648a1f-b254-eb4a-0d1c-1e712f8a1575" class="OWAAutoLink">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>> on behalf of achim.geissler <<a href="mailto:achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch" id="OWA1d6dd399-1544-4c56-98b3-b33c6bec67db" class="OWAAutoLink">achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</a>><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 3, 2026 9:08 AM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" id="OWAdd7812a5-c2e5-bda1-351e-6f89172be2a9" class="OWAAutoLink">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" id="OWA59833b41-b573-1ca4-03bc-0a175ed74c48" class="OWAAutoLink">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>><br> <b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] Compiling on MacOS 26.5+</div> <div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">  </div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Hi all,</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> after some time, I wanted to update my ESP-r version on my M2 Mac w/ MacOS 26.5 (soon .6) to the current latest, 13.3.18 from May 2025.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Compiling was possible after quite a struggle, however, there seems to be a problem with the “update_notes.txt” which is downloaded at startup to check if the most recent version is installed. As far as I could see, an (MacOS) “EOF” or similar is inserted prior to the 13.3.18 changes listing and this leads to an error "</span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px;">EMENU: EOF detected, error in input command.”</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> which itself possibly makes firing up of X broken.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Who - currently - is managing the ESP-r code? I would be interested in getting the 13.3.17 archive (my latest successful installation was 13.3.16) to make sure there is no gap in my source tree.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Also, it would be nice if somebody at ESRU could check the current “update_notes.txt” and make sure no undesired characters inadvertently made their way into it.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Thanks.</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Best</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Achim</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> <br> <a href="mailto:achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch" id="OWAe2cf622b-49ce-67ed-452d-acbbe3ee1059" class="OWAAutoLink">achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</a></div> </blockquote> <div><br> </div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</div> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> </body> </html>