Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>Perhaps not surprisingly, you're not the first to express interest in a Mac version of MRtrix... I did try once a while ago, and kind of managed to get something working, but it wasn't really satisfactory. To cut a long story short, the command-line utilities seemed to work OK, but the GUI components didn't really seem to work well. I'd eventually convinced myself that it was down to poor OpenGL support on the X compatibility layer. Mind you, this was on an older PowerPC Mac, so things might have changed since then...</div>
<div><br></div><div>The most painful part was the installation of the dependencies, in particular gtkmm and gtkglext. I had to compile these from source, since the pre-compiled versions available at the time were too old. There's a website that provides pre-compiled packages for Mac at <a href="http://www.finkproject.org">http://www.finkproject.org</a>. I've just had a brief look, and it now looks like all the required dependencies are there and sufficiently up to date - you might be in luck!</div>
<div><br></div><div>So it looks like it would be worth giving it a shot. If you feel up to it, here's a few pointers: you'll need to generate a new config file for the build - probably named darwin.py (it's named according whatever Python's platform.system() function returns), in the sysconf folder. I'd recommend you start with a copy of the linux one, and modify it as needed. It should be a simple matter of figuring out the correct include paths, and possibly changing a few compiler options. You shouldn't need to modify the code in any way. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Needless to say, if you manage to get it working, I'd be more than happy for you to load it up on NITRC... :) <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Donald.</div><div><br></div>
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On 17 February 2011 07:05, Michael Zeineh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmzeineh@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmzeineh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Has anyone been able to compile any part of mrtrix on the mac? mrview and mrconvert are outstanding general tools, along with all the other great dti/csd tools!<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Michael Zeineh<br>
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