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

[Claude LEPAGE]

Pierre,

Back in May 2010, I compiled some basic minc tools on Darwin 10.6 on
Samir's computer. Read carefully: it's 10.6, not 10.5. If you want to
try:

http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/users/claude/darwin-10.6.tar.gz

It comes with a newer version than minc-2.0.15. It's mostly a static
build, likely 64 bits. It's not the full stuff, but it's a good start.

Claude

> 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
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