[Users] How I got Visit 2.4.2 & CarpetHDF5 to work on Mac OS X Lion

[Scott Hawley]

One more thing: I set the environment variable
HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK=2



On 5/15/12 11:01 AM, "Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF
MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY]" <bernard.j.kelly at nasa.gov> wrote:

>Hi Scott.
>
>Thanks for the detailed walk-through, which of course, I'm *not* following
>to the letter. Unfortunately the results of my fiddlings are the same as
>before. Details below.
>
>I really don't think it can be my HDF version per se. Perhaps it's my MPI?
>Any reason why MPICH shouldn't work?
>
>
>Bernard
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>0th step: I'm using Snow Leopard, not Lion.
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>On 5/14/12 5:23 PM, "Scott Hawley" <scott.hawley at belmont.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>Here's what I did:
>>
>>1. Downloaded the 64-bit binary of Visit 2.4.2 from the Visit web site
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>check
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>>2. Downloaded the CarpetHDF directory via svn.
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>check
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>>3. Downloaded hdf5-1.8.9 source via ftp.  I just put it in the CarpetHDF5
>>directory.  Did a make and make installŠ.
>>    "HDF5 Directory" is then .../hdf5-1.8.9/hdf5/ (see below)
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>I've stuck with my MacPorts-installed 1.8.8
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>>4. Made sure "Remote Login" is enabled under "Sharing" in "System
>>Preferences".  Visit uses this.
>>    Went ahead and did a "ssh localhost" just to make sure. I was
>>actually
>>prompted to confirm an address because I'm on LSU's network right now.
>>    (Presumably Visit needs a clean login with no pesky questions or
>>password prompts.)
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>check
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>>5. Created symbolic links in /usr/lib to whichever MPI libraries I
>>planned
>>to use.  
>>   Older versions of OS X had native MPI support, and this is hard coded
>>in the binary you get from the visit site.
>>    I use OpenMPI and MacPorts, so I went to /usr/lib and did "sudo ln -s
>>/opt/local/lib/libmpi* ."
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>
>check. But I'm using MPICH (MacPorts again), so my MPI libraries are
>libmpich, libmpichcxx, libmpichf90. There is an old libmpi in /usr/local,
>which seems to have been installed with the OS. I don't want to delete
>this without a good reason.
>
>>6. Deleted my ~/.visit directory entirely.  This may not be necessary.
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>check
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>>7. Went in the CarpetHDF5 and ran ./install and Šbasically just did what
>>was in the readme, that is:
>>  in the xmledit window, clicked on "Cmake" and then updated the flags,
>>as
>>in
>>   
>>   CXXFLAGS = 
>>-I/Applications/VisIt.app/Contents/Resources/2.4.2/darwin-x86_64/include
>>-I/Users/shawley/apps/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/hdf5-1.8.9/hdf5/include
>>   LDFLAGS = 
>>-L/Applications/VisIt.app/Contents/Resources/2.4.2/darwin-x86_64/lib
>>-L/Users/shawley/apps/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/hdf5-1.8.9/hdf5/lib
>>  Saved and closed the window, let it do its thing...
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>check (though my HDF installation is in /opt/local/include,
>/opt/local/lib)
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>>8. Ran visit from the command line, using the -noconfig option.   The
>>latest version of Visit has a problem with "localhost" on Mac, for some
>>reason.
>>so 
>>visit -noconfig
>>
>>..and then visit came up, I opened a .h5 file and was able to do all the
>>usual things with it!
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>Sadly, UNcheck. 
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