[MITgcm-support] MITgcm on the Mac

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Patrick, Samar, Yuan, Sergey, and Patrick, thank you for all the  
suggestions.
To close this thread, here is what I ended up adding to a baseline  
Leopard installation:

xcode from installation cd #2 (cvs, make, gcc, etc.)
GFortran http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinariesMacOS (have been told  
that lately it is better supported and evolving than g95)
octave and gnuplot http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=237839 
  (matlab replacement)
Carbon Emacs http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html (I prefer  
it to Aquamacs)
MacTex-2007 http://www.tug.org/mactex/ (for LaTeX, BibTeX, TeXShop,  
and much more)
Flip4Mac http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx 
  (needed to play Windows animations)
adobe reader: http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php (Preview  
is slick but not 100% compatible with forms, etc.)
neooffice: http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php (MSOffice  
replacement)

Dimitris Menemenlis <menemenlis at sbcglobal.net>
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On May 2, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Patrick Rosendahl wrote:

>> I use ifort and gcc. For MPI, I use mpich. Everything, including   
>> netcdf, matlab mex files, etc compiles 'out of the box'.
>
> same for me here. though I have tested ifort only, working with GNU  
> fortran. ifort worked as 64bit also, but i didnt see any  
> improvement, since it will just make your EXE larger (64bit offsets  
> etc), and i am not using more than 4gb per process (using dual-core  
> w/ MPI instead).
>
> as for latex, I use "fink" package manager. works well.
> some packages like libnetcdf come with fink, too, but the last time  
> i checked it, it came without fortran support...
> it is advisable to have a set of ifort and a set of GNUfortran  
> libraries anyways, so d/l the source and compiling/installing it  
> into seperate directories is necessary (to avoid any compilation/ 
> linking problems etc).
>
> Patrick Rosendahl
>
>
>> For latex, the recommended installation is that from TUG (the so   
>> called TeX Live distribution that you get on Linux).
>> See here for details: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/  
>> obtaining.html
>> Samar
>> On May 1, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
>>> Patrick, Martin, Guillaume, Gael, and other MITgcm Mac users,  
>>> what  is the officially sanctioned way of running MITgcm on the  
>>> Mac?   What compiler, MPI implementation, etc., do people use?  Is  
>>> there a  preferred way to add proper support for emacs, TeX,  
>>> etc.?  Is there  an up-to-date MITgcm discussion thread that  
>>> discusses these  choices?  Dimitris
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