Specific instructions for Mac OS X 10.5 and later

XCode

Make sure you have xcode installed. If you don't have it, get it here (You'll need a Mac Developer Account)

We won't use the Python version that comes with Mac OS X. Install the 2.7.x Mac Python version available here.
Update your path: using Finder, go to Applications > Python 2.7 . There is a script there called Update Shell Profile.command that adds the new Python to your ~/.bash_profile.
You can test the installation typing python -V in the shell. You should see Python 2.7.2

Downloads available here.
Uncompress the file, and inside the directory, type python configure.py. Then make and make install

Downloads available here.
Uncompress the file, and inside the directory, type python configure.py. Then make and make install

numpy
scipy
matplotlib

In order to load vistrails files from a database, you need to install MySQLdb.
- Install MySQL. Get specific version for your system here. After installing it, make sure /usr/local/mysql/bin is in your PATH.
- Install MySQLdb. Uncompress it and and inside the uncompressed directory do a sudo python setup.py install
Install suds from https://fedorahosted.org/suds/

First you'll need CMake: get the latest release here
Then you can get vtk: follow the instructions to download the source code on this page
(Skip this step if you don't need to run CORIE workflows) Follow these instructions to add CORIE and other needed files to VTK.
To compile VTK follow the instructions in the file README.html in the root of VTK directory tree
On configuring CMake, make sure that the variables VTK_WRAP_PYTHON, VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT, VTK_USE_DISPLAY, VTK_USE_COCOA are ON and VTK_USE_QVTK, VTK_USE_CARBON, VTK_USE_X are OFF
run make and sudo make install