[GRASS-user] Grass on MacOS (Ken Mankoff)

[Michael Barton]

Ken & Co.

You might find this of interest.

I've been working off and on for the past several month to find a new way to compile and distribute GRASS for Mac with all dependencies created outside the Mac system folders and bundled with it. The goal is to eliminate the SIP problem and the potential for conflicts with different versions of dependencies/frameworks/python/wxpython.

With a lot of help from colleague Eric Hutton (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System), we are very close to having a reproducible and distributable build of GRASS under Anaconda. Our goal is to compile GRASS in an Anaconda environment so that it is distributable in two related ways: as a standard Mac package and app, and as an Anaconda package (installed via the command 'conda install [grass version]'). This will be a fully 64 bit GRASS version using wxPython 3 for the GUI.

Due to the many other responsibilities and pulls on our time, Eric and I have only been able to work sporadically. But as of this week we are down to one main baffling and annoying problem left to solve. Then we can do some clean up and begin making this build available to test. With that in mind, if anyone has experience in creating Mac *.app and *.pkg environments for distribution, please get in touch. You might be able to help us get over the last hurdle.

Cheers
Michael
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Arizona State University

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On Jan 14, 2018, at 1:00 PM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff at gmail.com<mailto:mankoff at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Grass on MacOS
Date: January 14, 2018 at 7:46:27 AM MST
To: Adam Dershowitz <adershowitz at exponent.com<mailto:adershowitz at exponent.com>>
Cc: Carlos Grohmann <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com<mailto:carlos.grohmann at gmail.com>>, "grass-user\@lists.osgeo.org" <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>>


Hi Adam,

I'm glad to hear you got GRASS working on OS X w/ MacPorts. That is the system I use too. I recently switched from HomeBrew. I got GRASS working with fink too, but prefer MacPorts, although there are some MacPort-specific issues if you want to use the temporal framework.

I found it helpful to set GRASS_PYTHON and have it pointing to

export GRASS_PYTHON=/opt/local/bin/python2.7

I don't like installing 3rd-party frameworks, so I also have QGIS installed via MacPorts and it works well.

For GRASS, I had to "sudo port install gdal +netcdf" in order to be able to read in NetCDF files. For QGIS I did "sudo port install QGIS +qt4 +grass".

 -k.


On 2018-01-14 at 00:37, Adam Dershowitz <adershowitz at exponent.com<mailto:adershowitz at exponent.com>> wrote:
Thanks, but…I use Macports for a bunch of things, and homebrew and
maports don’t play well together. So, I can’t easily do that. I did
get the macports version to work after I asked the question. It was
actually just due to the fact that I have been using the Kyngchoas
version for a long time, and that used to require that GRASS_PYTHON be
set in .bash_profile. But, I had set it to point to an old directory a
while back, and that folder didn’t exist. So, I just had to delete
that environmental variable and the macports version now works fine.
And, the Kyngchaos version of qgis does seem to work fine.

Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose that it would be useful to have
working binaries to avoid these kinds of issues.


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