Hi Ian.
Thanks; I'm trying the compilation now, but am failing with a linking
error I've encountered lately: "Undefined symbols for architecture
x86_64". This seems to be an issue with MacPorts gcc compilers. I
don't know if my MacPorts installation is borked, but I can't compile
this right now.
... so any additional ideas on the precompiled h5mma binary are appreciated.
Maybe you could try with homebrew?
The only thing I can think for the precompiled binary is to attach a debugger to it. h5mma should be loaded when you load SimulationTools; it will appear as a process in "ps". You could attach gdb:
/opt/local/libexec/gnubin/gdb --pid $(pgrep h5mma)
and then type "continue". Now, evaluate the ImportHDF5 expression from Mathematica. With any luck, you will get a backtrace in gdb when h5mma crashes. I wonder if the problem is related to the executable being compiled on an earlier version of OS X.