[GRASS-user] Installing GRASS 7 on Mac OS 10.8: binary or build from source?

[Michael Barton]

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C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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On Mar 25, 2013, at 4:47 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>
 wrote:

> From: pyrogerg <gregory.penn at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] Installing GRASS 7 on Mac OS 10.8: binary or build from source?
> Date: March 25, 2013 12:01:10 PM MST
> To: <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> 
> 
> I want to install GRASS 7 on my Mac, which is running Mac OS 10.8.3. There is
> a binary installer at 
> 
> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_mac/OSX10.6-snowleopard/
> 
> which is linked to from http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/
> 
> I already have installed GRASS 6 and its required frameworks (all from
> William Kyngesburye's binaries). My question is,
> 
> 1) Would I do better to install GRASS 7 from the binary mentioned above, or
> to build it from source?

Neither is inherently better than another. The binary I build has built in multiple language support (gettext) and support for LAS tools (for Lidar processing). You would need to build extra packages to get this support. However, if you build it yourself, you can customize it with what you do and don't want.


> 2) Do I need to install new frameworks for GRASS 7, or newer versions of
> existing frameworks?

Because William updates his frameworks at irregular intervals as new versions of the software become available, the frameworks needed to run the binaries are available on my GRASS 7 binary site. There is a readme file on my binary site that says which versions were used for compiling. You can compare those with the versions you have.


> 
> Building from source is not something with which I am very familiar, so if
> that is the preferred route then it would be helpful to have some
> instructions for how to do it correctly.

I've posted detailed instructions on the GRASS WIKI for how I compile GRASS 7 under Mac OSX 10.8.

Michael

> 
> Thanks,
> Gregor

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