Re: Successful build of Octave 3.6.1 on OSX Lion (sans FINK)

[Clark Dunson]

Thanks Ben;

I cleaned up my post, and will try this sequence on my Snow Leopard
machine next.

On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Clarkman wrote:
> 
>> # This wasn't that bad, and I am very happy to get it working!  BUT I caution
>> # you though, I may be long-time Matlab user & C++ developer, but I am
>> totally
>> # newbie to Octave.  I finally figured out how to get fltk back-end working,
>> so
>> # thanks for all the helpful posts here!
>> #
>> # I'm on OSX 10.7.3, had a previously installed binary for octave-3.2.3
>> # The code snippet below for src/display.cc (CGDisplayBitsPerPixel) might be
>> useful?
>> 
>> # This will take a long while ...
>> sudo port install octave-devel
>> 
>> # Install gfortran for OSX Lion (twisted tale here!  This looks)
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#MacOS
>> 
>> # Copy PCRE header, a total hack.
>> sudo cp /opt/local/include/pcre.h /usr/include/
>> 
>> # Get, build, and install readline-6.2
>> # (May be retrieved from ftp.cwru.edu.)
>> # In readline-6.2 dir:
>> ./configure
>> # I got an error during 'make' that requires we use -dynamiclib rather than
>> -dynamic
>> # Researched and found: "You need to go into the sub folder
>> readline-6.2/shlib folder in the ReadLine source folder and edit Makefile,
>> search -dynamic and change it to -dynamiclib.  This worked, but again it's a
>> total hack!
>> # Then this will work for readline, puts in /usr/local:
>> sudo make install
>> 
>> # Then we must convince Octave configure to look for readline > 4.2 at
>> /usr/local/lib instead of the default:
>> 
>> export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'
>> export CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include'
>> 
>> # Crude, but it works.  There are probably options to ./configure that
>> accomplishes same.  ??  Also not sure of the ordering opt/usr or vice-versa
>> 
>> 
>> # Next we have a problem with the deprecated "CGDisplayBitsPerPixel"
>> function
>> # as called in src/display.cc on line 75.  I found this workaround that
>> seems
>> # to work fine:
>> #if 1
>>       CGDisplayModeRef mode = CGDisplayCopyDisplayMode(display);
>>       CFStringRef pixEnc = CGDisplayModeCopyPixelEncoding(mode);
>>       if(CFStringCompare(pixEnc, CFSTR(IO32BitDirectPixels),
>> kCFCompareCaseInsensitive) == kCFCompareEqualTo)
>>               dp = 32;
>>       else if(CFStringCompare(pixEnc, CFSTR(IO16BitDirectPixels),
>> kCFCompareCaseInsensitive) == kCFCompareEqualTo)
>>               dp = 16;
>>       else if(CFStringCompare(pixEnc, CFSTR(IO8BitIndexedPixels),
>> kCFCompareCaseInsensitive) == kCFCompareEqualTo)
>>               dp = 8;
>> #else
>>         dp = CGDisplayBitsPerPixel (display);
>> #endif
>> 
>> 
>> # But you only have the gnuplot side working yet
>> # Ben suggested this:
>> sudo port install transfig epstool pstoedit
>> # here
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Compiling-Octave-with-OSX-10-7-td3734547.html
>> ### Woah!!  When I saw OSX Lion building imake, I did a double-take.
>> 
>> # Then you have to install fltk-devel
>> sudo port install fltk-devel
>> # Now build Octave and take a coffee break
>> ./configure
>> 
>> # Now gets us this ....
>> 
>> Octave is now configured for x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0
>> 
>> Source directory:            .
>> Installation prefix:         /usr/local
>> C compiler:                  gcc   -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat
>> -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
>> -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
>> C++ compiler:                g++  -I/opt/local/include
>> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include   
>> -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
>> -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2
>> Fortran compiler:            gfortran -O
>> Fortran libraries:            -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib
>> -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin11/4.6.2
>> -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin11/4.6.2/../../..
>> -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
>> Lex libraries:               
>> LIBS:                        -lm  
>> 
>> AMD CPPFLAGS:                
>> AMD LDFLAGS:                 
>> AMD libraries:               -lamd
>> ARPACK CPPFLAGS:             
>> ARPACK LDFLAGS:              
>> ARPACK libraries:            
>> BLAS libraries:              -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas
>> CAMD CPPFLAGS:               
>> CAMD LDFLAGS:                
>> CAMD libraries:              -lcamd
>> CARBON libraries:            -Wl,-framework -Wl,Carbon
>> CCOLAMD CPPFLAGS:            
>> CCOLAMD LDFLAGS:             
>> CCOLAMD libraries:           -lccolamd
>> CHOLMOD CPPFLAGS:            
>> CHOLMOD LDFLAGS:             
>> CHOLMOD libraries:           -lcholmod
>> COLAMD CPPFLAGS:             
>> COLAMD LDFLAGS:              
>> COLAMD libraries:            -lcolamd
>> CURL CPPFLAGS:               
>> CURL LDFLAGS:                
>> CURL libraries:              -lcurl
>> CXSPARSE CPPFLAGS:           
>> CXSPARSE LDFLAGS:            
>> CXSPARSE libraries:          -lcxsparse
>> DL libraries:                -ldl
>> FFTW3 CPPFLAGS:              
>> FFTW3 LDFLAGS:               
>> FFTW3 libraries:             -lfftw3
>> FFTW3F CPPFLAGS:             
>> FFTW3F LDFLAGS:              
>> FFTW3F libraries:            -lfftw3f
>> fontconfig CFLAGS:           -I/opt/local/include  
>> fontconfig LIBS:             -L/opt/local/lib -lfontconfig  
>> FT2_CFLAGS:                  -I/opt/local/include/freetype2
>> -I/opt/local/include
>> FT2_LIBS:                    -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -lbz2
>> GLPK CPPFLAGS:               
>> GLPK LDFLAGS:                
>> GLPK libraries:              -lglpk
>> graphics CFLAGS:             -I/opt/local/include -pipe -O2
>> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT
>> graphics LIBS:               -L/opt/local/lib -arch x86_64 -lfltk_gl
>> -framework AGL -framework OpenGL -framework ApplicationServices -lfltk
>> -lpthread -framework Cocoa
>> Magick++ CPPFLAGS:           -I/opt/local/include/GraphicsMagick  
>> Magick++ LDFLAGS:            -L/opt/local/lib  
>> Magick++ libraries:          -lGraphicsMagick++ -lGraphicsMagick  
>> HDF5 CPPFLAGS:               
>> HDF5 LDFLAGS:                
>> HDF5 libraries:              -lhdf5
>> LAPACK libraries:            -llapack
>> OPENGL libraries:            -L/opt/local/lib -lfontconfig  
>> -Wl,-framework -Wl,OpenGL
>> PTHREAD flags:               -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
>> PTHREAD libraries:           
>> QHULL CPPFLAGS:              
>> QHULL LDFLAGS:               
>> QHULL libraries:             -lqhull
>> QRUPDATE libraries:          -lqrupdate
>> READLINE libraries:          -lreadline
>> REGEX libraries:             -L/opt/local/lib -lpcre
>> TERM libraries:              -lncurses
>> UMFPACK libraries:           -lumfpack
>> X11 include flags:           /opt/local/include
>> X11 libraries:               -L/opt/local/lib -lX11
>> Z CPPFLAGS:                  
>> Z LDFLAGS:                   
>> Z libraries:                 -lz
>> 
>> Default pager:               less
>> gnuplot:                     gnuplot
>> 
>> Do internal array bounds checking:  false
>> Use octave_allocator:               false
>> Build static libraries:             false
>> Build shared libraries:             true
>> Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
>> Include support for GNU readline:   true
>> 64-bit array dims and indexing:     false
>> 
>> 
>> # And then make it all ...
>> make
>> 
>> # Gets us:
>> # "Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:"
>> 
>> # Then:
>> make check 
>> 
>> # and we get ...
>> # src/data.cc ............................................ PASS  797/798 
>> FAIL 1
>> # scripts/polynomial/roots.m ............................. PASS    9/10  
>> FAIL 1
>> # Summary:
>> #  PASS  10006
>> #  FAIL      2
>> #
>> # There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).
>> #
>> # Expected failures are known bugs.  Please help improve Octave
>> # by contributing fixes for them.
>> #
>> # There were 357 skipped tests (see fntests.log for details).
>> # Skipped tests are features that are disabled in this version of Octave
>> # because the needed libraries were not present when Octave was built.
>> #
>> # 243 (of 803) .m files have no tests.
>> #
>> # 38 (of 154) .cc files have no tests.
>> 
>> sudo make install
>> 
>> 
>> # I tried both back ends per Ben's hints, and they both seem to work:
>> 
>> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>> figure(1)
>> graphics_toolkit fltk
>> figure(2)
>> surf (peaks)
>> figure(1)
>> surf (peaks)
>> 
>> # I also tried installing the miscellaneous package (because of recent
>> posts)
>> 
>> # Not too messy ...
>> 
>> octave:2> pkg install miscellaneous-1.0.11.tar
>> warning: creating installation directory /Users/cdunson/octave
>> waitbar.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Fwaitbar(const
>> octave_value_list&, int)’:
>> waitbar.cc:126: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> ‘char*’
>> waitbar.cc:147: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> ‘char*’
>> waitbar.cc:148: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
>> ‘char*’
>> csvconcat.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Fcsvconcat(const
>> octave_value_list&, int)’:
>> csvconcat.cc:85: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
>> data type
>> warning: function
>> /Users/cdunson/octave/miscellaneous-1.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0-api-v48+/waitbar.oct
>> shadows a core library function
>> warning: function
>> /Users/cdunson/octave/miscellaneous-1.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0-api-v48+/waitbar.oct
>> shadows a core library function
>> 
>> What's next?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Clark
> 
> There's a page on the wiki about building on MacOS.
> 
>       http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_Mac
> 
> It includes addition dependencies.
> 
> Ben
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