[yt-dev] OSX without Apple Developer Account

John ZuHone jzuhone at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 08:00:01 PDT 2012


If you have OS X 10.7.3 or later, you can download the command line tools (gcc, etc.) without XCode:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/06/install-gcc-without-xcode-in-mac-os-x/

Still need an Apple ID, but it is free. You might have better luck this way. 

On Oct 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, "Casey W. Stark" <caseywstark at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was unable to find an xcode install for mac os x 10.6 without going to the developer site. If you have a newer version of os x, you might be able to get it in the app store, but I'm not sure how different the apple id and developer id thing are. My accounts look the same anyway.
> 
> As for hpc for mac, I confirmed that I cannot build scipy. xcode 3.6.2 works, but when I use the hpc gcc and g77, I get:
> 
> error: Command "gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -c scipy/optimize/Zeros/ridder.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.7/scipy/optimize/Zeros/ridder.o" failed with exit status 1
> 
> The one last option I can think of is the macports gcc packages. I have never tried them, but a friend mentioned that someone got gcc >4.2 built with the apple flags and has had success with them.
> 
> Whatever the answer is, they sure aren't making it easy. Really makes me want to leave developing on a mac...
> 
> - Casey
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can report that I was unable to build scipy last week with the version of gfortran provided by the hpc site.  I'm not sure about the full version of gcc that they have available.
> 
> I was finally able to build scipy with the version of gfortran available from the R for Mac OS X page: http://r.research.att.com/tools/
> 
> 
> On 10/11/12 9:05 PM, Casey W. Stark wrote:
> I've had problems with the hpc for Mac compilers. I'm on my phone so I can't check this but I remember certain builds failing because they expect the apple specific gcc flags. I can check tomorrow. I also remember Xcode 3 packages floating around outside the apple developer site.
> 
> - Casey
> 
> 
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012, Matthew Turk wrote:
> 
>     Ah!  That's perfect.  And I thought you needed an Apple Developer
>     account for XCode -- but perhaps I am mistaken.  (Going off a report I
>     received earlier.)  Providing the alternate for GCC on
>     hpc.sourceforge.net <http://hpc.sourceforge.net> should be
> 
>     sufficient.  Thanks, Chris!
> 
>     On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Chris Malone
>     <chris.m.malone at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>     > Hi Matt,
>     >
>     > Are you referring to Xcode stuff?  I don't think you need an
>     Apple Developer
>     > account for that.
>     >
>     > I usually get my GNU compilers from the HPC Sourceforge page:
>     > http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
>     >
>     > What else do you need?
>     >
>     > Chris
>     >
>     > On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > Does anybody know of a way to get the necessary compiler
>     toolchain for
>     > yt on OSX without filling out an Apple Developer account?
>     >
>     > -Matt
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