Specific instructions for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later, Intel or PPC

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 Mac Python version available here.
Update your path: using Finder, go to Applications > MacPython 2.5 . 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 2.5.2

numpy
scipy
matplotlib

PyXml
- Uncompress it and inside the uncompressed directory do a sudo python setup.py install
In order to load vistrails files from a database, you need to install MySQLdb. In order to do that , you need to install MySQL. Get specific version for your system here. Then install MySQLdb
- Uncompress it and and inside the uncompressed directory do a sudo python setup.py install
Install ZSI 2.1:
- Download ZSI-2.1-a1.tar.gz, uncompress it and sudo python setup.py install
- Or if you have easy_install installed:

 sudo easy_install http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pywebsvcs/ZSI-2.1_a1-py2.5.egg

First you'll need CMake: get the latest release here
Then you can get vtk: follow the instructions to download the CVS 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_CARBON are ON and VTK_USE_QVTK, VTK_USE_COCOA, VTK_USE_X are OFF
Create a environment variable called PYTHONPATH
- export PYTHONPATH=<path/to/vtk_build>/Wrapping/Python:<path/to/vtk_build>/bin:.

You can get the open source version for MAC here
Uncompress the file and inside the uncompressed directory run configure then make and finally sudo make install
Add the /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/bin to the PATH variable

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