G3 Doc: installation-osx

Index

InstallerPackage

NeurospacesRepository

Introduction

This page explains how to do a developer installation of GENESIS on a MAC. Almost the same installation procedure for Neurospaces on a regular PC works on the MAC.

Installing Dependencies

Note that some installation must be done from the terminal. The terminal can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. Would be a good idea to drag the terminal to the doc for easy access.

• Install monotone, this is freely available as a package from the monotone website http://monotone.ca/.
• Install Xcode, the Apple Development Toolset. It is available disk 2 of Mac OSX under optional install. It is also available from the Apple Developer Website here http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html you will need a valid Apple ID to log in and access the developer page. Note: It is not advised to use the compilers available from macports.
• Install the following perl dependencies via CPAN:
1. YAML
2. Inline
3. RecDescent
4. Expect (and its dependency perl-IO)
5. ExtUtils
6. Data::Comparator
7. File::Find::Rule

Installation

Once these dependencies have been met you can pull source code from the GENESIS repository and do a build on your machine with the following commands:

• neurospaces_create_directories
• neurospaces_pull
• neurospaces_update
• neurospaces_configure
• neurospaces_install (requires admin password)

Once these have completed you can test your installation by performing this command:

neurospaces_check

This will perform a series of regression tests that will indicate any inconsistencies with your installation.