[MINC-users] Re : MINC2 on Mac OS 10.5

Tue Nov 16 15:32:12 EST 2010

Pierre,

I was having the same problem about a year ago (someone really should pull
that old OS X page from the site) and my only solution was to compile the
whole thing myself, including libraries. That was not a task I really wanted
to get into but it turned out not so bad. Anyway, I now have 2.0.18,
unfortunately in 32 bits, and some knowledge on how to do it yourself if
you're interested.

Burt.

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 14:27, Pierre Bellec <pbellec at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>wrote:

> Dear MINC users,
>
> I have been trying this morning to install the minc tools & associated
> software on a MAC OS 10.5 using the package found in :
> http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/osx-10.5/
> Minc2 won't install because it cannot find the (shared) HDF5 libraries. It
> turns out that every single shared version of these libraries I found (fink
> etc) comes in 32 bit, and the MINC packages are 64 bits. I finally pulled
> out a 64 bit HDF5 library from Matlab (one dirty hack, just to test) but
> then mincinfo complained about szip. Which again I haven't been able to
> find
> in 64 bit shared version. So first question is, how is it possible to
> install a version of HDF5 which work with these packages ? I found an old
> thread from two years ago describing pretty much all the steps I went
> through :
> http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2008-July/002127.html
> The tar ball of Alex won't work for me because raw2minc (or minc2raw) is
> broken, according to the original post of Alex. Beyond that, what is the
> rationale for using dynamic libraries in the first place ? Every time I try
> to install the minc tools I run into issues with HDF5/NETCDF. This topic
> came back many times and I believe that now Andrew has decided to go for
> static builds, but I just wanted to mention again that I think it is
> totally
> worth it.
>
> In any case, this version of minc2 is rather old (2.0.15).   It would be
> great to have the 2.1 release. In my new institution, there are a lot of
> MAC
> and I am eager to share tools, but so far I got stuck at the installation
> phase. Please let me know if that is something that can be expected to come
> out in the near future. Otherwise, Mathieu Desrosiers at CRIUGM offered to
> create a static build of the minc bundle that we will then share as a tar
> ball.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help,
>
> Pierre Bellec, PhD
> Chercheur adjoint
> Centre de recherche de l'institut de Gériatrie de Montréal
> Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
> Université de Montréal
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