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Eco Lab compiles out of the box on OSX using the Mac OSX Dev Tools package, which is available for free download from http://connect.apple.com You will also need a copy of TCL/Tk - the ActiveTCL works well, although building TCL/Tk from source is also possible. If you do the latter, choose the unix build directory, not the macosx one.
You need to make a choice whether you want to run Eco Lab as a
native Aqua application, or as an X-windows application under the
XFree86 server software. Specify
--enable-aqua on the Tk configure line to build for Aqua,
rather than X11. On the Eco Labbuild line, specify AQUA=1 on
the make command line.
You may also use
MacPorts
to easily
build the prerequisite packages. Eco Lab's Makefiles will search for
Macports software located in /opt/local prior to searching
system locations. Note that if you install the MacPorts version of Tk,
it uses X11 only, Aqua mode is unavailable.