Building on Mac
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)
Installing dependencies
Installing C++ compiler
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
Installing Postgres
http://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do#osx
http://www.enterprisedb.com/getfile.jsp?fileid=484
Once downloaded, just do a standard install and remember the admin user password.
Installing Boost
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
In safari get http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_38_0.tar.bz2 and move it to your home directory.
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,system,thread
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.
ln -s /usr/local/include/boost-1_38/boost /usr/local/include/boost
Quit superuser
exit
Building and Installing libexodus
Either download Exodus using Subversion (recommended - latest version)
cd ~ mkdir exodus cd exodus svn co http://svn.neosys.com/svn/trunk cd trunk/exodus/exodus
or download a tarball (using curl not wget) - may not be the latest version
cd ~ curl http://devwiki.neosys.com/images/2/2a/Exodus-9.6.0.tar.gz>Exodus-9.6.0.tar.gz tar xvfz Exodus-9.6.0.tar.gz cd exodus-9.6.0
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
Find out where your boost libraries are installed and what they are named.
find /usr | grep libboost
Customise the following command to suit the boost library location and names that you found in the previous step.
./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/local/lib \ --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-system=boost_system-xgcc40-mt \ --with-boost-thread=boost_thread-xgcc40-mt
make sudo make install
An additional installation step that unfortunately has to be done by hand at the moment.
ln -s /usr/local/include/exodus-9.6/exodus /usr/local/include/exodus
Test that you can now develop in C++ with Exodus. The libs and includes will no longer be required with a better installer.
nano tester.cpp
#include <exodus/exodus.h> int main() { date().oconv("D").outputln(); }
g++ tester.cpp -lexodus-9.6 -I/usr/local/include/exodus ./a.out 25 JUN 2009
Setting up Postgres for Exodus
- Finder, Places, Applications, PostgreSQL 8.3, PGAdmin III
- Login as superuser eg postgres
- Select the postgres database
- Click SQL in the toolbar and enter the following sql command.
CREATE ROLE exodus LOGIN PASSWORD 'somesillysecret' CREATEDB CREATEROLE;
and click the Execute Query button. It should show "Query returned successfully"
CREATE DATABASE exodus WITH ENCODING='UTF8' OWNER=exodus;
and click the Execute Query button. It should show "Query returned successfully"