[MITgcm-support] MITgcm on Mac OS X

[Martin Losch]

Credit where credit is due:
To my knowledge, Samar Khatiwala was the first to get the MITgcm to 
compile and run on a Mac, but thank you for the roses.

Martin

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:59  PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> 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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