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

Thu Jan 18 16:19:25 PST 2018

I was able to compile GRASS 7.4.0 RC2 and have just posted it to the GRASS Mac web site.

This is a clickable Mac *.app bundled with dependencies and Python. So it *should* work without conflicts. But it is not a full fledged version of Python that you can customize with new packages. For that, we will need to create versions that are Anaconda packages that can be installed with 'conda install grass'

Michael
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Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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On Jan 17, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:

I've just posted a new GRASS 7.2.2 dmg to the GRASS for Mac web site (http://grassmac.wikidot.com<http://grassmac.wikidot.com/>). This one is compiled with gettext for internationalization. Please test.

I have not been able to get 7.4 to compile yet.

Michael

____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu<http://csdc.asu.edu/>

On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:37 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:

Hi Helena,

I am very glad that it works for you so easily. A HUGE thanks is owed to Eric Hutton of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), an NSF facility and scientific network for modeling in the earth sciences. It was Eric's idea to try this through Anaconda. He provided guidance and I worked though a lot of testing it as an Anaconda build last summer, but was unable to get it to a point where GRASS could reliably be compiled and then distributed. Over the last couple months, Eric has worked out how to solve those problems, including making a launchable app and packaging it all in a dmg. There is a bit of fine tuning left to do in the workflow, but it is essentially distributable now--making it the first time I've been able to create a stable and easily installable binary in a year and a half.

Parallel to this, Eric proposes (and has worked out the protocol) of also making GRASS available as an Anaconda package. He has created an Anaconda 'recipe' to do this. After getting the app/dmg distributed, I will follow his lead to test how this works as an alternative for those who use Anaconda for Python.

This new build has a couple of characteristics quite different from previous Mac versions. Most importantly, all needed dependencies are bundled inside the app. This makes for a bigger app, but hopefully eliminates any conflicts among dependency versions. No more separately installed "frameworks". No more conflicts if you (or a program) install another version of Python or wxPython somewhere. And hopefully, no more issues with Apple's 'system integrity protection' (SIP).

This test version does not include gettext for internationalization or libLAS. I wanted to test it as we've been developing the workflow, without adding anything else until I can confirm that it works. However, I think it will be easy to include gettext because there already is an Anaconda version available. LiDAR support may be trickier. I have previously compiled libLAS. I think it may be possible to work out how to link and bundle it in this Anaconda version. That said, there seems to be work in the dev team for substituting PDAL as a LiDAR support library, and Anaconda already supports PDAL. So if we can substitute PDAL functionality for libLAS functionality, we can do it all within an Anaconda environment.

This is also a full 64 bit version of GRASS. No more need to compile it dual architecture 32/64 bit. This solves a number of compiling and running issues, and means that the GUI now must run in wxPython 3 and above (still Python 2.7). There are several GUI bugs that show up in switching from wxPython 2.8 to 3+. I've created tickets on the 3 I know of. The most annoying 2 of these should be pretty easy to solve for the people who are actively managing the GUI (the menu button bar does not properly revert back to 2D buttons after displaying 3D, and a custom pull-down list control does not recognize mouse clicks). I don't know if the 3rd one is easy or difficult to solve (the interactive supervised classification module crashes GRASS).

Please feel free to distribute and get back in touch with me and Eric if you run into any issues.

Cheers
Michael

____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu<http://csdc.asu.edu/>

On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:53 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu<mailto:hmitaso at ncsu.edu>> wrote:

Michael,

thank you for the dmg file - great news - I was able to get GRASS running on my new laptop in less than 10 minutes including download. On first double click it refused to open that it is not verfied but it allowed me to open it by clicking on it and selecting Open in the menu ( I remebered that trick from the past).

I noticed that it does not have r.in.lidar (I am aware of the issue) but nviz and map swipe runs, g.gui.animation  has a problem. Anyway it is fantastic to have GRASS Mac binary back - thank you all for the effort,

Helena

On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:

Hi Eric,

I just started from scratch and compiled GRASS under Anaconda, created an app, and created a dmg. It runs with a double click. This is great!! Tonight, I will test on my laptop at home with SIP turned on. Fingers crossed.

Cheers
Michael
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Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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