Installation instructions for Mac users

Mac users can follow the same instructions as linux users, except for the installation of the external dependencies (requirements):

Requirements

Minimum

• C++ and Fortran compilers

  • Mercury uses C++11 features and thus requires an up-to-date compiler.
    We suggest you use clang, or gcc 4.8-6 or higher.

  • To compile our Fortran files, we recommend gfortran.

• cmake version 2.8.14 or higher (http://cmake.org/cmake)

• python version 2.7

• subversion (svn) version 1.7 or higher

Optional

• doxygen and graphviz (dot) used to create a local copy of the documentation

  • graphviz (https://graphviz.gitlab.io/download/)

  • doxygen (http://www.doxygen.nl/download.html)

• X11 used to visualise your simulation results with xballs

• Paraview used to visualise your simulation results, rendered in 3D

• OpenMPI libraries for parallel computing

Installation steps

Step 1: Install external dependencies

• To install an up-to-date c++ compiler we recommend you to install either XCode or the Command Line Tools. XCode provides you with a nice IDE, but is ~10GB in size, whereas the Command line tools is a much lighter package. To install the Command Line Tools, open a terminal and type

xcode-select --install

For more details, see https://osxdaily.com/2014/02/12/install-command-line-tools-mac-os-x/.

• To install the other dependencies, we recommend you to use a package manager such as brew. Once you have installed brew, you can install the other packages as follows:

brew cask install cmake

brew install subversion

brew install python

Similarly, you also can install the optional dependencies, like doxygen.

Step 2: Install MercuryDPM

• Follow the installation instructions for linux to install MercuryDPM, starting with step 2.