Statically Linked Binary xv for Mac OS X

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• Binary xv 3.10a
  Mac OS X 10.3.9 - tar/gzipped
  Please read the license before downloading
• Patched Source xv 3.10a
  Compiles against Mac OS X 10.3.9 - tar/gzipped

What is xv?

xv is a great X11 program that displays images in a wide variety of formats including GIF, JPEG, PPM and PNG. It's great because it's simple, not too bloated and fast. See http://www.trilon.com/xv/.

What is this version?

This is a pre-compiled binary version patched to work on Mac OS X 10.3.9 (it may work on others). It links against:

% otool -L xv
xv:
        /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0)
        /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.1.3)

How do I use it?

• Download it
• Load X11: Applications/Utilities/X11.app
• Uncompress it using StuffIt Expander
• You'll be left with a single executable file, xv. Place this in a sensible location.
• Open xv from the Finder

How did you do this?

I applied the patches for xv from the FreeBSD Ports Collection then used the libjpeg and libpng from the Fink Project. I declared the variable 'NeXT' so that xv would compile against Darwin's libraries. Finally it was compiled with the -O3 option using GCC 3.3.

Caveats

• Mouse handling is a little weird and annoying when using quartz-wm.
• You can't put xv in the dock.

Contact

If you manage to do anything interesting with this, find it works on other Mac OS X or Darwin versions please let me know. My address is alex at this domain name.

Thanks and Copyright

xv copyright 1994 John Bradley
FreeBSD Patches copyright the FreeBSD Project under the BSD Licence