[cgma-dev] [Meshkit-dev] installing Meshkit

[Tim Tautges]

Steve, can you try building or installing opencascade on the mac?  That should be supported, and would give us a mostly 
functional cgm there.

- tim

On 04/07/2011 12:48 PM, Steve Jackson wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:24 , Tim Tautges wrote:
>
>>
>> On 04/07/2011 09:21 AM, Avery Bingham wrote:
>>> I have a few questions on installing MeshKit.
>>>
>>> First, has it been installed on a Mac? Second I am having some difficulties getting CGM installed.  I use Cubit, but
>>> I have a prebuilt version and I cant get the configure file to use the cubit libraries from my installed version.
>>> Unfortunately I don't have ACIS or access to the cubit source code.   This seems to be a road block to installing
>>> MeshKit.  Do you have a suggested workaround?
>>>
>>
>> This should be installable on a mac, though I'm not sure if anybody has actually tested that.
>
> That's a good question.  I spent some time trying to build CGM (merge-cubit12 branch) against Cubit 12.2 on Mac OS 10.6, and I got nowhere: I cannot find a way to successfully link against the libcubiti19 file that's inside in the Cubit application.  (I can convince the linker to link against this file, but I cannot reference any symbols without producing undefined symbol errors.)   This prevents CGM from passing its configure step.
>
> I haven't time to work on this further, but if anyone with a Mac wants to look at this more closely, they can contact me for details about what I've tried so far.
>
> (Would it be practical to set up MeskKit to build without CGM, or with a CGM that doesn't have a geometry backend installed?  It seems like the greatest burden for a new user is getting CGM set up with an appropriate backend.)
> ~S
>
>

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