UndefVarError: GMT_Create_Session not defined

[machar94]

Hello, I am running into an error when running the hello world for GMT.

using GMT
plot(1:10, rand(10), lw=1, lc=:blue, fmt=:png, marker=:square,
     markeredgecolor=0, size=0.2, markerfacecolor=:red, title="Hello World",
     xlabel="Spoons", ylabel="Forks", show=true)

I receive UndefVarError: GMT_Create_Session not defined.

I've seen #402, and from the resolution tried installing both GMT and the Julia package but still run into the same issue. I've tried installing GMT on my mac with the dmg file and through homebrew. I read what you said about libgmt.jl being included in the package and I do indeed have the file so I'm really confused why gmt_main.jl cannot see the function. I've also tried running plot both in the jupyter notebook and in the REPL run into the issue still. Do you have any ideas/suggestions on what I can do to debug this? I really appreciate it. Thank you.

GMT version: 6.1.0
GMT.jl version 0.23
macOS Catalina 10.15.5
Julia version 1.4.1

[joa-quim]

Sorry, I cannot make sense out of this error. The GMT.jl file imports the libgmt.jl file which defines GMT_Create_Session, so how can it not be defined? What does this do?

API = GMT.GMT_Create_Session("GMT", 2, GMT.GMT_SESSION_NOEXIT + GMT.GMT_SESSION_EXTERNAL + GMT.GMT_SESSION_COLMAJOR);

If you do a import("/path/to/GMT.jl"), does it make any difference?

Note that the dmg GMT install will probably not work due to mysterious things that OSX is doing under the hood (see #298) but the homebrew build should be fine.

Note, I'm on travel (vacations) so my replies are irregular.

[machar94]

Hey Joa-quim. Appreciate your quick response. I'm not sure if I restarted my machine or what, but I did uninstall the dmg and used the homebrew install on my mac and it did work. Thanks!