My friends, John and Michael, and I have compiled a guide/troubleshooting list for getting RViz (and other tools) working on OS X with the latest diamondback from SVN.  I don&#39;t think there is any new information here, but rather a survey of the common problems encountered.  The main idea is making ROS build as 32-bit only and using +universal macports everywhere, this comes from Dave&#39;s comment on this ticket: <a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4788#comment:8">https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4788#comment:8</a> <div>

<br></div><div><img src="http://williamjwoodall.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/RViz-on-OSX.png" alt="RViz-on-OSX.png" title="RViz-on-OSX.png" width="420" height="262"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Additionally there are other patches and tricks listed in the troubleshooting sections, all of which are ticketed and/or fixed in later SVN revisions, so hopefully this guide won&#39;t even be necessary in the near future, but for now I hope will help some people.</div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/wjwwood/au-automow/wiki/Ros-osx-i386">https://github.com/wjwwood/au-automow/wiki/Ros-osx-i386</a></div><div><br></div><div>If this seems useful enough to put on the <a href="http://ros.org">ros.org</a> wiki, I would be glad to move it if someone would just point to the place.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>William Woodall<br>Graduate Software Engineering<br>Auburn University<br><a href="mailto:w@auburn.edu" target="_blank">w@auburn.edu</a><br>

<a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjwwood@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://williamjwoodall.com">williamjwoodall.com</a><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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