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Title: Installing on Mac Post by: bvdp on November 12, 2020, 02:11:51 AM The current read-me for installing on a mac system is VERY old and dated. Here it is all in all its archaic glory:
https://mellowood.ca/mma/mac/machowto.html I think things have gotten easier over the years and should be as easy as: - unpack the binary tarball - run the cp-install script - move or link mma from /usr/local/bin to /sw/bin/mma What I don't know: - is mac shipping/installing a version of python3? - do mac users need to change to administer mode or something similar to install? If someone can give me a heads up on this I'll update the instructions! Title: Re: Installing on Mac Post by: sciurius on November 12, 2020, 07:36:46 AM I'm not a Mac expert, but I can tell you that Catalina (10.15) comes with python 2.7.10 pre-installed. It also seems to know about python3, but this gives a warning (error):
xcode-select: error: tool 'python3' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance I'm not sure what that means. I did the following: Code: tar xf /mma-devl.20.02e.tar.gz AFAICS python mma.py behaves normally. A small mma does the rest: Code: #!/bin/sh I also tried mma-gb. It starts up slow (parsing the grooves takes one second per groove!) and gives a deprecation warning that the system Tk is obsolete. I couldn't get it to work, it's too slow. Hope this helps... Title: Re: Installing on Mac Post by: bvdp on November 12, 2020, 04:14:31 PM Did you try something like "python3 mma ..."?
Also, would this link help: https://www.saintlad.com/install-python-3-on-mac/ Title: Re: Installing on Mac Post by: sciurius on November 12, 2020, 06:37:07 PM I installed python3 using homebrew. Note that I needed to tweak my PATH to make sure that python3 did run the newly installed version, not the system version.
Running mma with python3 works equally well. Equally slow. Title: Re: Installing on Mac Post by: bvdp on November 12, 2020, 06:53:33 PM Slow? Just doing the update or creating files as well? I'm assuming you don't have a mac from the 1990s :)
Title: Re: Installing on Mac Post by: sciurius on November 12, 2020, 07:41:06 PM The mma-gb still parses at one file per second. Plain command-line mma feels okay.
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