> On 23 Jan 2016, at 18:20, Paul Onions <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > In case anyone is interested I thought I’d post my experience of building > FriCAS on OSX. For reference this is FriCAS 1.2.7 on OSX 10.11.2 (El > Capitan). To do this I needed the Xcode command line tools [1] and the > XQuartz package [2] to be installed. Then I could build FriCAS from source > using the following configure invocation:- > > ./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11/include > > I’m not sure why I need to specify the x-includes directory, it would be nice > if it was autodetected —- I had a look at the build machinery but quickly got > lost :-( > > Hope this is helpful to someone, > Paul > > [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/technotes/tn2339 > [2] http://www.xquartz.org
For reference, I have also realised that the build process requires GNU awk (the OSX-supplied awk, it seems, will not do). The ``gawk’’ port of MacPorts [3] will supply this, and FriCAS’s configure script will automatically pick it up. Regards, Paul [3] http://www.macports.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
