Lion

This page records the process for getting up and running with my toolchain on Mac OS X Lion.

I did everything IN THE ORDER SPECIFIED.

The Tools

Interface

• Dotfiles:
  • .profile
  • .bashrc
  • .aliases
  • .vimrc
  • .inputrc

Must-Haves

• MacVim http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
  • VimOutliner https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner/
• Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/
• Divvy http://mizage.com/divvy/
• iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
• Firefox
• Chrome

Software Development

• Compilers: ORDER OF OPERATIONS IS VERY IMPORTANT HERE...
  • Step 1: Install Kenneth Reitz's GCC tools instead https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
  • Step 2: Install Apple's XCode
  • NOTE: You will probably run into a problem with vImage.h when installing some software, like SciPy. See my solution here: Scipy vImage.h Problem
• Git http://git-scm.com/
  • Note: you'll have to add /usr/local/git/bin to the front of your path in case your system, like mine, has an old crusty version of git installed
• Homebrew http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
  • Edit /etc/paths and move /usr/local/bin to the top line, so that Homebrew stuff always comes first
  • brew install gfortran
  • brew install hdf5
  • brew install graphviz
  • brew install wget
  • brew install php

• Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
  • Installed binary version due to issues with Mac compiler...
  • You can add doxygen to your path, even if you installed the GUI, by putting the following in your .profile:
  • export PATH="/Applications/Doxygen.app/Contents/Resources:$PATH"

Python

• Python stuff (see Python#Packages page for my general approach to installing Python packages; I install packages by hand whenever possible)
  • numpy
  • cython
  • scipy
    • I ran into a problem with vImage.h, solution is here: Scipy vImage.h Problem
  • dateutil
  • ipython (installing instructions on the iPython page)
  • nose https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/1.3.0
  • gitpython
  • h5py
  • pandas
  • statsmodels
  • sympy
  • scons
  • matplotlib
    • due to compiler issues, I had to download the Mac OS X 10.8 egg, and run easy_install on the egg
  • scikit-learn
  • pymc

Cantera-Related

• Boost http://www.boost.org/
• Sundials https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/sundials/
• Cantera https://code.google.com/p/cantera

Other Handy Things

• MacTeX http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html
• LyX http://lyx.org/
• R http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
• VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/
• Evernote http://www.evernote.com

Web Server

• AMP on Mac OS X
• AMP (apache, mysql, PHP) following this guide: http://www.astonishdesign.com/blog/native-lamp-stack-mac-os-x
  • NOTE: this is not MAMP... MAMP is a headache. This uses Homebrew instead.