Building CDAT on Mac
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- Requirements
- You will need X11 to run CDAT. If you don't have it, install it from your Mac OS X Install Disc
- Follow these instructions to install vistrails development environment
- Download cdat form the source code repository
svn checkout http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/svn/repository/cdat/trunk cdat
- Download this patch (building NetCDF without Fortran support) or if you have fortran compiler installed, download this other patch and uncompress to the cdat folder.
- Perform the following commands:
$ unset PYTHONPATH $ cd cdat/exsrc $ sudo ./install_script /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4 $ sudo python install.py /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4
- Before running vistrails, reset PYTHONPATH variable:
$ export PYTHONPATH=<path/to/vtk_build>/Wrapping/Python:<path/to/vtk_build>/bin:.