[Dune-devel] Dune on MacOS

[Simon Praetorius]

Thank you all for your feedback. I will forward the information to my 
students and colleagues. For testing I also installed an older MacOS 
10.15.5 Catalina in a virtual box. Lets see how this works in MacOS...

Best,
Simon

Am 08.07.21 um 10:29 schrieb Samuel Burbulla:
> Hi Simon,
>
> I use Dune on MacOS (11.2.3), too.
>
> I use the toolchain installed by the Apple Developer Tools, i.e. clang 12.0.5 and cmake 3.20.2.
>
> Other packages like suitesparse I install via homebrew.
>
> Recently, I made a full new setup on a new M1 Mac and also observed no real issues.
>
> Best,
> Samuel
>
>
>> Am 07.07.2021 um 20:25 schrieb Simon Praetorius <simon.praetorius at tu-dresden.de>:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Recently, some of my colleagues tried to install Dune (core modules + some extensions) on their Mac. They used the default compiler on a MacOS >= 10.13 and got several compiler errors, e.g. related to missing std::optional.
>>
>> Can anyone share their experience with MacOS since I myself do not own any of these systems, i.e.
>>
>> - Which MacOS is supported with its default software?
>> - Is there a minimal supported version for Apple-clang?
>> - Are there any other restrictions on a standard MacOS setup?
>> - What about external dependencies, like MPI, BLAS, LAPACK or SuiteSparse? Are they available via package managers?
>> - Is it possible to replace the default apple compiler easily by something else?
>>
>> Maybe can we add some description on the webpage? If it is there, please send me the link, I might have missed it. Note, the "Compilers" page seems to be outdated.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Simon
>>
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>> Institute of Scientific Computing
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Dr. Simon Praetorius
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Scientific Computing
phone: +49 351 463-34432
mail: simon.praetorius at tu-dresden.de
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