Mac Intel Instructions

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

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

• Install Python
  • Mac Intel comes with Python 2.3.5. We need Python 2.4. There is a Universal Binary available here
  • Maybe your path variable was not updated. Using Finder, go to Applications > MacPython 2.4 . 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 2.4.4

• Install Python Extensions
  • To get memory information on mac, PyXml is needed and a binary package is available here
  • fpconst and SOAPpy are also required for using web services. fpconst is available here. SOAPpy is available here
  • In order to use the Log feature, you need to install MySQLdb (also available as a binary package)

• Install VTK CVS version (Skip this step if you won't use VTK)
  • 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
  • It is recommended to create a environment variable called PYTHONPATH
    • export PYTHONPATH=<path/to/vtk_build>/Wrapping/Python:<path/to/vtk_build>/bin:.

• Install Qt 4.2.0 or above
  • 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-4.2.x/bin to the PATH variable

• Install GraphViz
  • There are Mac OS X builds of nightly snapshots here
  • Add the usr/local/graphviz-version/bin to the PATH variable

• Install SIP
  • Get the stable release version available here. (The latest snapshot version is here)
  • Uncompress the file, and inside the directory, type python configure.py. Then make and make install

• Install PyQt4
  • Get the stable version, available here. (The latest snapshot version is here)
  • Uncompress the file, and inside the directory, type python configure.py. Then make and make install

• Install Scipy
  • Get it here

• Install Matplotlib
  • Get it here
• If you want to install cdat from source on mac intel, follow these instructions.