How To Setup An OS X CASA Development Computer

This page describes how to install CASA 3rd party packages required for CASA development.

Status: UNDER DEVELOPMENT
  • Development and test on "vanilla" OS X 10.7.
  • CASA builds on OS X 10.7. Not tested elsewhere yet.



Warnings

  1. CASA development on OS X requires an x86_64 CPU and OS X 10.7.
  2. Installing pre-built CASA 3rd party packages will break existing default installations of MacPorts. See CAS-5958.
    • Either move /opt/local some where else and install CASA 3rd party packages as described below, or
    • build CASA 3rd party packages into your existing installation of MacPorts.
  3. Installing pre-built CASA 3rd party packages will break NRAO Managed Software. See CAS-5958.
    • Either move /opt/local some where else and install CASA 3rd party packages as described below, or
    • build CASA 3rd party packages into your existing installation of MacPorts.
      • This is NOT tested with NRAO Managed Software! I have low confidence this will work.

Before You Begin

  1. You must have access to root on the computer to be setup.
  2. You must install the latest version of Xcode for your OS X version, and you must install the Xcode command line tools.

Download Pre-built CASA 3rd Party Packages

Depending on your OS X version, download the latest file with the name of the form casa-3rd-party-packages-os-x-10.7-x86_64-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz from

Install Pre-built CASA 3rd Party Packages

As root, with the current 3rd party tar package

mkdir -p /opt/casa
cd /opt/casa
curl -o casa-3rd-party-packages-os-x-10.7-x86_64-2014-05-09.tar.gz https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/osx_distro/developers/10.7/casa-3rd-party-packages-os-x-10.7-x86_64-2014-05-09.tar.gz
gnutar fpvx casa-3rd-party-packages-os-x-10.7-x86_64-2014-05-09.tar.gz

You will see a new directory /opt/casa/01, containing the CASA 3rd party packages.

Setup Your User Account

To use these CASA 3rd Party Packages in your work, add

export PATH="/opt/casa/01/bin:$PATH"

Or the equivalent for your shell to your shell interactive environment file. In Bash, this will be .bashrc. I don't know about other shells.

Build CASA

For instructions on building CASA, see How To Build CASA Using Build Tool Wrappers.

-- ScottRankin - 2013-12-17

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