[MITgcm-support] MITgcm on Mac OS X

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:48, Daniel Enderton wrote:
> Hey Ed,
> 
> Did you have any problems loading the fortran compiler on the G5 
> loaner?  I can not even get simple little fortran programs to run. 
> Ahh, macs...  I think that I might try and clean off all the 
> developer tools as well as fink and try it from the beginning again. 
> Is there anyone in the building that you have noticed that does 
> programming on a Mac box - snide comments aside please :)


Hi Daniel,

After installing Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), the g77 compiler
installs on the Mac OS X system with just a single command (run as
root):

  apt-get install g77

After that, I had no problems with the compiler.  In fact, I think it
compiled and ran every current test in the MITgcm verification suite.

I'm aware of two people who use the Mac OS X systems and are associated
with us:

  1) Jamie (one of the Techsquare admins) has a Mac OS X laptop 
     but I don't know if he does any software development.

  2) Martin Losch <mlosch at awi-bremerhaven.de> is an MITgcm 
     developer and he was probably the first to get MITgcm 
     running on Mac OS X system.  Martin's emails were very 
     helpful (thanks, Martin!!!) when I used the G5.

And again, I *was* able to get recent versions of MITgcm (from CVS) to
compile and run on the G5.  Come see me if you'd like help.

Ed

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