[xcrysden] Success: Building XCD 1.5.24 with shared libs on OS X

Paulo Alex da Silva Carvalho palex at infis.ufu.br
Tue Jul 26 22:10:01 CEST 2011


Thanks a lot David!

I am following your steps. It takes some time. When I finished I let you
know if it works for me.
Again, thank you!


Prof. Paulo Alex da Silva Carvalho
Instituto de Física
Campus de Patos de Minas
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia


2011/7/25 David M. Wood <dmwood at mines.edu>

> Howdy all!
>
> After long travails, I have succeeded in building a functioning version of
> 1.5.24.  It is somewhat disturbing how difficult this has been.  (It appears
> to have succeeded today only because of new Mesa and OpenGL libraries from
> MacPorts.)
>
> I attempt to give here a quick prescription for building xcd 1.5.24 using
> external libraries provided by the MacPorts system:
> http://www.macports.org/ . [Remember why this is potentially useful: you
> can use, e.g., libraries which are tweaked for your particular architecture;
> macports is also well maintained.]  Because this process has been spread out
> over many weeks, I undoubtedly have forgotten to specify something; please
> let me know if so.  I built this under Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard); I'll
> follow up if things are significantly different under Lion (10.7).
>
> 0.  Make sure you have Xcode and relevant Developer (e.g, X11) packages
> installed
>
> 1. Install a barebones MacPort tree (again, from www.macports.org)
>
> 2. Install, in no particular order (port will take care of dependencies)
>
> atlas
> fftw-3
> gfortran 4.5 [which will end up being named gfortran-mp-4.5 in
> /opt/local/bin], although earlier versions (e.g., 4.3) worked for me.  This
> should automatically install gcc.
> mesa
> meschach
> tcl
> tk
>
> NB: port install gcc45 +variant:gfortran is an EXAMPLE of how to install a
> variant of a particular port package.
>
> Each install will provoke a cascade of other downloads and install; be
> patient.
>
> 3. Use the Make.sys file below
>
> 4. Type "make all"
>
> 5. Test on .xsf or .xcrysden files
>
> Carefully inspect the directories and libraries mentioned in Make.sys; if
> you don't have the ones mentioned, you may not have installed the
> corresponding MacPorts packages.
>
> =========BEGINNING OF Make.sys==============
>
> MAKE = make
>
> CC     = /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.5
> #Need the have-no-getline
> CFLAGS = -O2 -m64 -L/opt/local/lib -DXC_HAVE_NO_GETLINE
> MATH   = -lm
>
> FC     = /opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-4.5
> FFLAGS = -O2 -m64 -L/opt/local/lib
> #DMW: See notes for CFLAGS above
>
> #X
> #port libs
> X_LIB     = -L/opt/local/lib -lXmu -lX11 -lXext
> X_INCDIR  = -I/opt/local/include
>
> # If you want to use your own libraries and include files,
> # then set *_LIB and *_INCDIR variables below accordingly:
> #
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> COMPILE_TCLTK = no
> COMPILE_MESA  = no
>
> #
> # Libraries
> #
> TK_LIB      = -L/opt/local/lib -ltk8.5
> TCL_LIB     = -L/opt/local/lib -ltcl8.5
> GLU_LIB     = -L/opt/local/lib -lGLU
> GL_LIB      = -L/opt/local/lib -lGL
>
> #DMW additions
> MESCHACH_LIB = -L/opt/local/lib -lmeschach
> FFTW3_LIB = -L/opt/local/lib -lfftw3
> LDLIB = -L/opt/local/lib
>
> #
> # Include directories
> #
>
> #blank fine
> TCL_INCDIR  =
> TK_INCDIR   =
> GL_INCDIR   =
>
> #DMW additions
> MESCHACH_INCDIR = -I/opt/local/include/meschach
> FFTW3_INCDIR = -I/opt/local/include
>
> =========END OF Make.sys==============
>
> I readily made a XCrySDen-1.5.24-bin-shared.tar.gz file but assume this
> won't work unless boatloads of libraries (above) are present.
> Hope this helps!
>
> David M. Wood, Dept. of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
> Phone: (303) 273-3853; Fax: (303) 273-3919
>
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