[Gate-users] GATE on Mac OSX Snow Leopard

[Uwe Pietrzyk]

Dear Gaters, especially those of you running MacOSX!

Since the latest Version of MacOSX called Snow Leopard is on the
market, I took a bit of time to install and test it with GATE version 5.0.0_p01.
There are mainly very good news, since it works fine considering two cases:

1) You can run the "old" Leopard-version straight away. Hence, if you are in a
specific production, but want to switch to Snow Leopard for whatever reason,
you can easily do so and still run you GATE. I checked it with the benchmarkPET.

2) In case you have to re-compile Gate, like is required for new developments,
you have to re-compile everything from the beginning, since Snow Leopard
is a full 64-bit operating system and you run into the situation of conflicting
architecture with different libraries. But it is no problem. Simply run through
the whole procedure as usual: CLHEP, GEANT4, ROOT, LMF, GATE.

Note: for root: use  ./configure macosx64 to make sure you get the right
architecture. I used Root version 5.24.

lmf_3.0: I succeeded to re-compile the lmf-modules and GATE
(i.e.: the benchmarkPET, which uses the lmf_3.0) runs, but
the file remains empty. Knowing, that the lmf-library heavily
relies on the 32-bit structure, this is no suprise. I have no
idea, whether this can be sorted out easily.

I hope this is interesting and helpful for you!

Kind regards and best wishes

Uwe Pietrzyk

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