Panda Installation error on OSX Snow Leopard

Installation
1

Hey, I recently downloaded version 1.7.2 of Panda3D,and it won’t run on my Mac, I keep getting this error message:

 import direct.directbase.DirectStart
DirectStart: Starting the game.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "dstroot/pythoncode/Developer/Panda3D/lib/direct/directbase/DirectStart.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "dstroot/pythoncode/Developer/Panda3D/lib/direct/showbase/ShowBase.py", line 10, in <module>
  File "/Developer/Panda3D/lib/pandac/PandaModules.py", line 8, in <module>
    from libpandaModules import *
  File "/Developer/Panda3D/lib/pandac/libpandaModules.py", line 2, in <module>
    Dtool_PreloadDLL("libpanda")
  File "/Developer/Panda3D/lib/pandac/extension_native_helpers.py", line 79, in Dtool_PreloadDLL
    imp.load_dynamic(module, pathname)
ImportError: dlopen(/Developer/Panda3D/lib/libpanda.dylib, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Developer/Panda3D/lib/libpanda.dylib
  Reason: image not found
>>>

Help would be very much appreciated.
I’m running OSX 10.6, in 64bit mode and panda in python 2.6.
Thanks.
Milk.

2

Hmm, maybe you have to install X11?

Incidentally, the Panda build as provided here only runs in 32-bit mode, but you appear to be running in 32-bit anyway (or you wouldn’t have gotten this far, I think).

David

3

The Mac version is compiled against Python 2.5, though, so you’ll need to run it with “python2.5” (or “ppython”, which is a handy symlink to the right version). You should run Python in 32-bits mode.

I haven’t seen the freetype error before, though. Try installing X11 from the OSX installation medium, as David suggested.

4

Okay, Panda is running in 32 bit mode, will install X11 (since I did not install it)and get back with the results.

5

Okay, installing the X11 and Developer tools did not work.Now I have to deal with this message:

Last login: Wed Nov  9 15:35:32 on ttys001
cd '/Developer/Examples/Panda3D/Asteroids/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw'  '/Developer/Examples/Panda3D/Asteroids/Tut-Asteroids.py'  && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
Muzamil-Shaheeds-MacBook:~ muzamilshaheed$ cd '/Developer/Examples/Panda3D/Asteroids/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw'  '/Developer/Examples/Panda3D/Asteroids/Tut-Asteroids.py'  && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Developer/Examples/Panda3D/Asteroids/Tut-Asteroids.py", line 13, in <module>
    import direct.directbase.DirectStart
ImportError: No module named direct.directbase.DirectStart

So, what’s next?

6

You should run it with ppython or python2.5.

7

I have, I’ve downloaded and installed the CG toolkit, installed X11, run it in 32 bit mode. What now?
If there is anyone who has managed to run Panda successfully on a mac in Snow leopard, help please!

8

The command line that you’ve pasted above seems to show you running /usr/bin/pythonw. Use ppython or python2.5 instead.

David