Q: why won't Tecplot launch on my Mac running OS X 10.9?

Context

• User has a new or updated Mac running OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and is running XQuartz 2.7.5
• Attempting to launch Tecplot results in an error message similar to Tecplot 360 failed to start. Incompatible library version: libXft.2.dylib requires version 17.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 15.0.0

Answer

Tecplot, Inc. proposes two possible workarounds (you can try one or the other, you don't need to apply both):

• revert XQuartz to 2.7.4
• go to the Tecplot lib directory and link libfreetype.6.dylib to /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib by running from a Terminal window:
  rm libfreetype.6.dylib; ln-s /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib libfreetype.6.dylib

The vendor reports that in the next release (Tecplot 2014 R1), there will no longer be a dependence on XQuartz

See Also

• Tecplot Landing Page