Installation prerequisites (MAC systems)

QAT Prerequisites

  1. Install XCode from the app store.
  2. Open XCode and accept license agreement before proceding to the next step.
  3. Install the brew installation tool by following instructions at https://brew.sh
  4. From a terminal window, type

    brew install qt

    to install the qt toolkit.
  5. After the successful installation of qt, read and execute the printed instructions regarding the PATH variable setting. To repeat them here:

    echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/qt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

    Then, close your terminal and open another one. Check that the qmake command is found in the newly installed area before proceeding to the next step.
  6. From a terminal window, type:

    brew install gsl eigen hdf5 pkg-config

    brew install openmpi

QAT3D Prerequisites

QAT3D packages are optional. They enable 3D graphics based upon the open inventor toolkit. If you wish to install these packages you need additional libraries
  1. Download the Coin library and the the simage library . Coin is an implementation of the Open Inventor toolkit. The simage library is for texture mapping.
  2. tar xvf Coin-4.0.0a.tar
  3. cd Coin-4.0.0a
  4. ./configure --disable-framework
  5. make
  6. sudo make install
  7. cd ..
  8. tar xvf simage-1.7.1.tar
  9. cd simage-1.7.1
  10. ./configure
  11. make
  12. sudo make install
  13. cd ..