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1. An off-topic question, which I hope the IF-knowledgeable readers of this blog will see.

   My sense is that Trizbort is very much the preferred mapping tool, but as far as I can see it’s Windows-only. My question is: is there a Mac port that I somehow missed? Or, failing that, does anyone know a good alternative than runs on a Mac?

   Thanks!

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   Mike Taylor

   October 10, 2017 at 9:33 am

   • Writing from my hotel room:

     Your best bet is ifmapper. Most recent update is from July. It uses Ruby; the preinstalled version on OSX should be fine.

     https://rubygems.org/gems/ifmapper/versions/1.3.1

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     Jason Dyer

     October 10, 2017 at 2:47 pm

     • Thank you! I’ll try it. (I’ve been using emacs to make ASCII-art maps.)
       Mike Taylor

       October 10, 2017 at 2:53 pm

     • sigh I love Ruby as a language. But its surrounding culture and tools all seem so flaky. Nothing ever seem to Just Work. In this case:

       ringo:invoices mike$ gem install -r ifmapper
       Fetching: rake-compiler-0.7.9.gem (100%)
       Successfully installed rake-compiler-0.7.9
       Fetching: fxruby-1.6.38.gem (100%)
       Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
       ERROR:  Error installing ifmapper:
       	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
       
           current directory: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/fxruby-1.6.38/ext/fox16_c
       /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20171010-93974-1xopob2.rb extconf.rb
       checking for fox per pkg-config... no
       checking for fxscintilla per pkg-config... no
       checking for fxscintilla on Ubuntu with missing libfxscintilla.so link... no
       checking for fxscintilla build... no
       checking for sys/time.h... yes
       checking for signal.h... yes
       checking for deflate() in -lz... yes
       checking for png_create_read_struct() in -lpng... yes
       checking for jpeg_mem_init() in -ljpeg... yes
       checking for TIFFSetErrorHandler() in -ltiff... yes
       checking for XftInit() in -lXft... yes
       checking for XShmQueryVersion() in -lXext... yes
       checking for XFindContext() in -lX11... yes
       checking for glXCreateContext() in -lGL... yes
       checking for gluNewQuadric() in -lGLU... yes
       checking for thread local variables... yes
       checking for rb_thread_call_without_gvl()... no
       checking for rb_during_gc()... no
       creating extconf.h
       creating Makefile
       
       current directory: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/fxruby-1.6.38/ext/fox16_c
       make "DESTDIR=" clean
       
       current directory: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/fxruby-1.6.38/ext/fox16_c
       make "DESTDIR="
       compiling FXRbApp.cpp
       In file included from FXRbApp.cpp:27:
       ./include/FXRbCommon.h:74:10: fatal error: 'fx.h' file not found
       #include "fx.h"
                ^~~~~~
       1 error generated.
       make: *** [FXRbApp.o] Error 1
       
       make failed, exit code 2
       

       Rats.
       Mike Taylor

       October 10, 2017 at 3:09 pm