Thankyou for the info!
The problem here is that MacOS 10.2 doesn’t seem to include libxml while it is included in 10.3. One thing you can do to solve this is to install fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) but I wouldn’t recommend it if you aren’t familiar with the unix environment.
Now that I know what the problem is though, I’ll surely be able to work out some kind of solution. If any of you install fink, I would very much appreciate any info about what happens next, does it work?
I’ve installed fink 0.6.3… but nothing change…
on the console the same message :
dyld: /Applications/Renoise.app/Contents/MacOS/Renoise can’t open library: /sw/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
While connected to the internet, try to write this in a Terminal:
fink install libxml2
That should install the files it is complaining about, then try to start Renoise again.
ok done, but terminal wrote :“Information about 41 packages read in 2 seconds.
Failed: no package found for specification ‘libxml2’!”
ok I retry “fink install libxml2”
so…terminal wrote:"fink install libxml2
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install libxml2
Information about 1329 packages read in 1 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
libxml2
The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
/bin/rm -rf libxml2-2.5.4-1
/bin/mkdir -p /sw/src/libxml2-2.5.4-1
bzip2 -dc /sw/src/libxml2-2.5.4.tar.bz2 | /sw/bin/tar -xf -
sed ‘s|@PREFIX@|/sw|g’ </sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libxml2-2.5.4-1.patch | patch -p1
patching file Makefile.in
patching file catalog.c
patching file configure
patching file ltmain.sh
patching file update-sgml-catalog
patching file update-xml-catalog
patching file xmlcatalog.c
patching file xmllint.c
./configure --prefix=/sw --mandir=’${prefix}/share/man’ --with-iconv=/sw
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configure: creating ./config.status
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config.status: creating xml2Conf.sh
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config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make
make all-recursive
Making all in include
Making all in libxml
make[3]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[3]: Nothing to be done forall-am’.
Making all in .
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include -I/sw/include -I/sw/include -g -O2 -Wall -c SAX.c
mkdir .libs
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include -I/sw/include -I/sw/include -g -O2 -Wall -c SAX.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/SAX.lo
SAX.c:1900: conflicting types for initxmlDefaultSAXHandler' /Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/SAX.h:151: previous declaration ofinitxmlDefaultSAXHandler’
SAX.c: In function xmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit': SAX.c:1947: warning: passing arg 1 ofinitxmlDefaultSAXHandler’ from incompatible pointer type
SAX.c: At top level:
SAX.c:1960: conflicting types for inithtmlDefaultSAXHandler' /Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/SAX.h:154: previous declaration ofinithtmlDefaultSAXHandler’
SAX.c: In function htmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit': SAX.c:2003: warning: passing arg 1 ofinithtmlDefaultSAXHandler’ from incompatible pointer type
SAX.c: At top level:
SAX.c:2018: conflicting types for initdocbDefaultSAXHandler' /Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/SAX.h:158: previous declaration ofinitdocbDefaultSAXHandler’
SAX.c: In function docbDefaultSAXHandlerInit': SAX.c:2061: warning: passing arg 1 ofinitdocbDefaultSAXHandler’ from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [SAX.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Failed: compiling libxml2-2.5.4-1 failed"
you may try to download these:
http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html
i assume (dont have a mac), you have to put those libraries either next to renoise.app (?) or somewhere in the system path where other libraries exist.
the compilerproblem should be addressed to the fink people, if the binaries fail, they could have a clue what you need to do to compile those successfully.
yes, I’ve already done this but nothing change…
As you said I’m gonna send the previous message to Fink people…maybe they have a solution…
I still haven’t been able to run Renoise OSX so I tried this:
I went shopping for a new ibook yesterday so I could run Renoise, but i decided to wait. (maybe they come out with a G5 powerbook next summer?)
I used ‘fink install libxml2’ and after it was done, it said ‘no C compiler found’. so I downloaded that link that Pulsar gave out, but I haven’t tied it yet.
So that’s the status so far. I really want to test Renoise for OSX, so I will keep trying to get it to work. 
The best way would be to update to Panther (10.3), anyway it has lots of improvements over 10.2 
I understand if you are not able to do this, or do not want to do this though - I’m working hard on the 10.2 compatibility right now. Unfortunately I’m not able to promise when, or even if I will get it to work.
I need advices.
somethings I’ve been thinking about the past few days:
10.3 - I am not sure if it’s worth the $129. Thats not a lot of money, but I had a buddy who worked at the mac store who used to ‘hook me up’ with whatever softwares I needed. He moved 
Renoise is worth the money I paid (but is an operating system worth 129?)
What’s the ‘estimated’ requirements for this MacVersion of Renoise? I still run a 2001 iBook that’s a G3 at 500mhz which came installed with OSX. Would it be a waste for me to try to run it (not much with VSTis, I usually use samples and medium number of track effects)
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My advice to the first question would be to still wait for a while, if you’re not completely desperate to start using renoise 
I’m still working hard on getting it running on 10.2, and hopefully I’ll succeed.
Regarding the second question I cannot really give any good advice, on my Titanium G4 667MHz it runs fairly ok (not with massive VST usage, but ‘ordinary’ songs with samples and a number of effects plays without interruptions). The difference between G4 and G3 shouldn’t be too big right now, we’ve got a couple of AltiVec optimizations a little here and there but nothing extreme.
To sum it up, I’d suggest you still wait for a while and hopefully I’ll get it working on 10.2 and then you can see with your own eyes how well it runs on your machine.
Blackis,
if you want, I can mail you the iBook for a few months, if it helps you develop and test the program on a different system. But I think it’d be a better idea to wait and once you have a working version, I could just get myself a firewire sound card and see how it functions with that. I want to upgrade to a better system by next summer, but I don’t think it will take a dual-G5 to run Renoise with a few vsts
