2 things you can do, get rid of libpng in macports (and you lose screenshot function) or add libpng to the makefile like the other stuff (replace -lpng with /opt/local/lib/llibpng.a (might be libpng14.a or so)).
That sounds like the solution. I didn't have libpng in MacPorts when I last worked with dosbox - but added it when I started working with libwpd. Will have to do this tomorrow, and will report back. Thank you again.
wrote:2 things you can do, get rid of libpng in macports (and you lose screenshot function) or add libpng to the makefile like the other stuff (replace -lpng with /opt/local/lib/llibpng.a (might be libpng14.a or so)).
I was too impatient to wait. This solution worked - adding /opt/local/lib/libpng14.a to the makefile. Thank you, thank you.
I have one more question about this but it can wait until after I get some sleep.
Thank you again for solving this annoying problem!
Now that you know it works you can do a step by step to find out which of the things in your svript was the culprit 😉
Thanks to Dominus, I've got my build procedure working perfectly again. In fact, I now cannot make it fail on my standard machine or on either of the two OS X installations on my borrowed machine.
I've gone through my script and put back (one by one) the EXPORT commands that Dominus doesn't use; that didn't cause any problems.
The original problem had to do with png - and Dominus's suggestions about modifying the Makefile fixed that problem.
I'm very sorry to have taken up so much time and bandwidth on a problem that seems to have affected only my setup. But I'm very grateful for help in getting my project going again, because I want to include in it the last four months of fixes in svn.
Thank you again! As before, the results of this project will be available here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wpdosmac-dosbox.html
and the Windows-based counterpart is here:
