Mac OS X support - Githubissues

exe0cdc commented 7 years ago

Currently the only mention of installation on OS X is in the INSTALL.txt file (and the source archives on the downloads page), but it seems that these instructions might be outdated (e.g. Enthought Python Distribution is now called Enthought Canopy). I am relatively unfamiliar with OS X, so I am asking the following questions from the perspective of a user that wants to install PySCeS on a "new/clean" OS X system with the least amount of fuss:

Is Enthought Canopy still the recommended distribution, or is Anaconda preferred?
What compilers are required/recommended for Mac OS X, and how does one go about getting them?
Does pip install pysces work if the compilers are present?
OS X comes with Python 2.7. Can PySCeS be installed (with pip or otherwise) without a Python distribution?
Is it possible to get a binary package for PySCeS on OS X?

bgoli commented 7 years ago

Hi, I don't have a Mac so can't help with binaries but as far as I know the following should work:

Use Anaconda Python if possible (it includes conda package management)
On OS X install XCode and the command line utilities, afaik this includes everything you need to compile stuff
You can use the native Python but then you need to install/build all the dependencies yourself, I would try Anaconda
If you get PySCeS built and working with Anaconda on OS X then we can look at building binaries :-)

exe0cdc commented 7 years ago

Thanks Brett,

I will test building and installation on a Mac by next week Friday and report back.

exe0cdc commented 6 years ago

This is a quite late, but I have tested installation of PySCeS on a Mac using Anaconda. I wrote instructions for installing PySCeS, which are included in PySCeSToolbox's documentation.

Basically the xcode command line tools are needed (it's not necessary to install the full xcode), as well as the gfortran binaries from http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries . From there pip install pysces works as expected.

jmrohwer commented 4 years ago

Cleanup. Closing this, we are now building and distributing Anaconda packages as well as wheels for MacOS.

PySCeS / pysces

Mac OS X support #27