[MINC-users] Using MINC on Intel Macs

Jason Lerch jason at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Sun Jul 9 08:11:33 EDT 2006


Greetings Paul + everyone,

I have a set of the MINC tools built for intel-mac, but using MINC2 
rather than MINC1. I'd certainly be happy to create an installer and 
distribute it if there's interest.

Jason

On Jul 9, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Paul Thompson wrote:

> Hi Andrew + everyone -
>
> Has anyone had any luck building MINC tools on the new "Intel core"
> Macs, running OS 10.4 ("Tiger")?
>
> I've downloaded Andrew's Mac OS 10.4 MINC package (from the link
> below - thanks Andrew!) but I think it was built on a PowerPC
> Mac (running OS 10.4). For folks who are not used to Macs (!), Mac is
> now making very fast laptops that ship with Intel chips,
> and they can often run applications built on a Mac PowerPC (using an
> built-in emulator called Rosetta). I tried out
> Andrew's MINC package (URL is below) -- I noticed that Register and
> most of the main minc tools do run ok on my
> Intel Mac running 10.4.7 (e.g. things like mincresample run fine).
>
> However I can't link against the pre-compiled volume I/O libraries
> when I use gcc to build my own C code that reads MINC. gcc
> complains with this:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: warning /usr/local/mni/lib/libbicpl.a archive's cputype
> (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (
> 7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: warning /usr/local/mni/lib/libvolume_io.a archive's
> cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputy
> pe (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (can't load from it)
> /usr/bin/ld: warning /usr/local/mni/lib/libminc.a archive's cputype
> (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7
> ) for specified -arch flag: i386 (can't load from it)
>
> Has anyone built these libraries on Intel Macs? If so would you be
> willing to post the .a files (or even email them to Andrew to put on
> the web? ;)
>
> Thanks a lot for any ideas! :)
> Paul
> (Paul Thompson, UCLA)
> http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/thompson.html
>
>
> ============================
>>>> a.janke at gmail.com 04/05/06 10:11 PM >>>
>>>>
> Hi Paul (and others)
>
> I recompiled a bunch of them last night under 10.4 there were a few
> small tweaks that were needed for POSIX compliance but by en large
> things progressed smoothly.  For the packages that require external
> libraries (bicpl and netpbm for example) I have used the fink
> versions.  In the future I may use darwinports as it seems a bit
> "cleaner" but at the moment I am unconvinced either way.
>
> Could those who use tiger please test the new packages here:
>
>     http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/osx-10.4/
>
> Note that this is not a complete list (some failed for various reasons
> that I will try to rectify over the next few days).
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 4/3/06, Paul Rasser <Paul.Rasser at newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering how things are progressing regarding the Mac OS
>> packages?
>>
>> Paul.
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