[yt-dev] OSX without Apple Developer Account
j s oishi
jsoishi at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 08:09:51 PDT 2012
Hi All,
This discussion came about because I am working with three high school
students here at AMNH this year. I want them to use yt, and the
program that they are in has a series of shared Mac laptops. This
program, like many educational programs, does not have a large budget,
and thus these machines are a number of years old. They run 10.6.8,
and I needed to install XCode. Unfortunately, I could not have the
students do this themselves, because in order to download XCode (so
far as I could find) for older OSs, you must have an Apple Developer
account, which requires that you are over 18. Thus I had to register
myself and download it for them. This is not a severe hardship by any
means, but it does seem to be contrary to the principles I would like
to instil in budding scientists/coders.
Thanks for all your answers!
j
On Fri, 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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