I’ll try these instructions this weekend.
David
> On Mar 7, 2018, at 4:45 AM, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I was finally able to get a clean VM of El Capitan installed on my Mac and
> tried installing WeeWX on it.
>
> I installed pip using
>
> sudo easy_install pip
>
> I was able to install the following without any problems:
>
> sudo pip install Pillow (installed into
> /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL)
> sudo pip install configobj
> sudo pip install Cheetah
> sudo pip install pyserial
> sudo pip install pyusb
>
> However, these two failed due to the lack of a compiler.
>
> sudo pip install pysqlite - failed
> sudo pip install pyephem - failed
>
> Installing xcode on a VM required bringing up a GUI, signing into
> developer.apple.com <http://developer.apple.com/>, then, from the command
> line, running
>
> xcode-select --install
>
> Once I got all that done, I was able to install pyephem
>
> sudo pip install pyephem
>
> but installing pysqlite failed again because of write permissions to
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/pysqlite2-doc, so I
> used pip to install as myself:
>
> pip install --user pysqlite
>
> which worked fine.
>
> I downloaded the weewx tarball, expanded it, then edited setup.cfg. Then ran
> setup.py, choosing the simulator.
>
> WeeWX came up fine. The only problem was that Cheetah did not have the "C"
> version of its NameMapper utility, so it substituted its Python version,
> which can be painfully slow. This probably happened because I installed
> Cheetah before I installed xcode, so it did the best without a compiler. If
> you already have xcode installed, I doubt you would see this.
>
> -tk
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> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Well, I'm sorry to hear that the Mac prefers easy_install. These days, it's
> pretty old school, having been replaced by pip. But, be that as it may..
>
> I don't know why easy_install is trying to install pysqlite into
> /Users/Shared/weewx/bin. Perhaps because you have PYTHONPATH defined? Try
> removing it as an environment variable, then installing. As I said earlier,
> it is not needed to run weewx.
>
> This is a long shot, but another possibility is that easy_install is seeing
> the file setup.cfg, which contains a definition for home. Try cd'ing to a
> different directory, then trying the install.
>
> -tk
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:59 AM, David Barto <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 6:18:26 AM UTC-8, mwall wrote:
> On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 6:43:19 PM UTC-5, Tom Keffer wrote:
> Nice to have a Mac expert around! Perhaps in a quiet moment you can tell me
> how to get the system logger to work on High Sierra.
>
> yes, please, i would like some of that magic too!
>
> I'll be more than happy to help out on this kind of thing. When I have free
> time. That isn't looking likely in the near future as the product was
> supposed to ship on Feb 28, and it is now Feb 33rd and I'm still not complete
> with my part.
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