[Mrtrix-discussion] Re: Another successful OS X build

[Craig Stark]

Donald,

MacPorts does involve a lot of compiling of the dependencies as well.  So, no real plus over the other two options there.  But, as I've got a lot of other things managed by MacPorts, sticking there is easier.  I'd also tried the Homebrew solution but hit some snag along the way.

Craig

> Hi Craig,
> 
> Thanks for that, I'm sure that'll be of great value to a lot of Mac users!
> Just to confirm one thing though: am I right in thinking that macports does
> not involve compiling all the dependencies on your own machine? If so, that
> would make it a much easier install than either homebrew or fink...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Donald.

> On Nov 29, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Craig Stark wrote:
> 
>> There have now been at least two threads here - Jon using Homebrew and Michael using Fink.  Just to round it all out, I thought I'd post that MacPorts can be used as well.
>> 
>> Run a "port install" on:
>> glib2
>> glibmm
>> (libpng - needed this to get gtk2 to go for some reason - perhaps a local issue)
>> gtk2
>> gtkmm
>> gtkglext
>> gsl
>> 
>> Then as Michael noted, copy linux.py to darwin.py to read:
>> cpp_flags = [ '-Wall', '-mtune=native', '-fPIC', '-fno-strict-aliasing', '-DGL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES', '-DUSE_TR1', '-L/opt/local/lib', '-I/opt/local/include' ]
>> 
>> ./build and away we go.  Also, as others have noted, you've got a huge list of shared libraries (run "otool -L mrview") as this is built using the dylibs.  You can get fairly far in making things static by changing all of the -lXXXX bits (run ./build -verbose) to /opt/local/lib/libXXXX.a
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>> Craig Stark, Ph.D.
>> Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
>> Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
>> University of California, Irvine
>> cestark at uci.edu
>> 
> 
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