Building on Mac: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:58, 13 July 2009

Installing Exodus on Mac is almost identical to installing on Linux but it is a little harder to acquire and configure the dependencies.

This install was performed on OSX 10.5.5 (Leopard)

Older macs might need to install XCODE tools from http://developer.apple.com after free registration. This is unfortunately a large 1Gb download.

Newer macs have XCODE tools installer in the Applications or Library folder and you just have to install it.

The XCODE package includes subversion

Once downloaded, just do a standard install and remember the admin user password.

Minimum required is boost 1_33. Here we install 1.38.

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Optionally get ICU to fully support unicode in boost regex. How to do this on Mac OSX is unknown at the moment.

Download and unpack Boost Source

Open a classic console shell (terminal)

cd ~
tar xvf boost_1_38_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_38_0

./configure --help
./configure --with-libraries=date_time,filesystem,regex,thread

Optionally, speed up the build of Boost by only doing the libraries and versions required. ADD additional config to the BJAM_CONFIG line as follows:

nano Makefile

BJAM_CONFIG= -j4 variant=release link=shared

Build Boost

make

Install Boost after becoming superuser

sudo make install

Ensure boost includes can be found. This step might be eliminated in a better Exodos installer.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/boost-1_38/boost /usr/local/include/boost

Quit superuser

exit

Download Exodus using Subversion

cd ~
mkdir exodus
cd exodus
svn co http://svn.neosys.com/svn/trunk
cd trunk/exodus

Ensure postgres can be found (change 8.3 to your version) and check pg_config can run

PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin/:$PATH
pg_config

Confirm where your boost libraries are installed and what their suffix is if any.

find /usr | grep libboost

Use a modified configure command using the boost library suffix from the previous step. The leading - is required.

./configure.bsd -xgcc40-mt

make
sudo make install

An additional installation step that unfortunately has to be done by hand at the moment.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/exodus-9.6/exodus /usr/local/include/exodus

@@ Line 66: / Line 66: @@
   exit
-=== Building and Installing libexodus ===
+=== Building and Installing exodus ===
-Either download Exodus using Subversion (recommended - latest version)
+Download Exodus using Subversion
   cd ~
@@ Line 74: / Line 74: @@
   cd exodus
   svn co http://svn.neosys.com/svn/trunk
-  cd trunk/exodus/exodus
+  cd trunk/exodus
 Ensure postgres can be found (change 8.3 to your version) and check pg_config can run
@@ Line 81: / Line 81: @@
   pg_config
-Find out where your boost libraries are installed and what they are named.
+Confirm where your boost libraries are installed and what their suffix is if any.
   find /usr | grep libboost
-Customise the following command to suit the boost library location and names that you found in the previous step. There might be a configure.bsd file to modify/use.
+Use a modified configure command using the boost library suffix from the previous step. The leading - is required.
-  ./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/local/lib \
+  ./configure.bsd -xgcc40-mt
- --with-boost-date-time=boost_date_time-xgcc40-mt \
- --with-boost-filesystem=boost_filesystem-xgcc40-mt \
- --with-boost-regex=boost_regex-xgcc40-mt \
- --with-boost-thread=boost_thread-xgcc40-mt
   make